Name: Leptolyngbya Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: N.L. fem. n. Lyngbya, referring to Lyngbye; N.L. fem. n. Leptolyngbya

Gender: feminine (stem: Leptolyngby-)

Type species: Leptolyngbya boryana (Gomont 1899) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Anagnostidis K, Komárek J. Modern approach to the classification system of cyanophytes 3 - Oscillatoriales. Algological Studies 1988; 50-53:327-472.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), conserved name

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Planktolyngbya Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)

• Notes:
  • Nomenclatural type of the family Leptolyngbyaceae Komárek et al. 2014. Publication: Komárek J, Kaštovský J, Mareš J, Johansen JR. Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 2014; 86:295-335.
  • Boone et al. (2001) assigned this genus to the class "Cyanobacteria". Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166.
  • Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Pseudanabaenaceae Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
  • The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Plectonema Thuret ex Gomont 1892. Publication: Gomont M. Sur quelques Oscillariées nouvelles. Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France 1899; 46:25-41.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Laptolyngbya"; "Legtolyngbya"; "Lepfolyngbya"; "Lepmlyngbya"; "Leprolyngbya"; "Leprolyngya"; "Leptalyngbya"; "Leptciyngbya"; "Leptdyngbya"; "Leptetyngbya"; "Leptoiyngbya"; "Leptolyngbia"; "Leptolynghya".
  • Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Johansen et al. (2011). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
  • The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: CCUG: 1; UTEX: 1; ATCC: 1; ULC: 1; CCALA: 1; DSM: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 125
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 145
Total number of child taxa: 147

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Leptolyngbya aeruginea (Hansgirg 1892) Komárek 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya africana (Lemmermann 1914) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya amplivaginata (Van Goor 1918) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name	synonym
    Leptolyngbya andina (Schwabe 1960) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya angusta (Skuja 1964) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya angustissima (West and West 1897) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya antarctica (West and West 1911) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Leptolyngbya aspera (Schwabe 1944) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya badia Johansen and Lowe 2008	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Leptolyngbya batrachosperma Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya battersii (Gomont 1899) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Leptolyngbya benthonica (Skuja 1964) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya bigranulata (Gardner 1926) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya bijahensis (Copeland 1936) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya bijugata (Kongisser 1924) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Leptolyngbya blennophila Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya borchgrevinkii Komárek 2007	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya borodinii (Kongisser 1932) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Leptolyngbya boryana (Gomont 1899) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya breviarticulata (Claus 1961) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya calothrichoides (Gomont 1899) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya carnea (Lemmermann 1907) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya cartilaginea (Copeland 1936) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya cataractarum (Hansgirg 1892) Komárek 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya cebennensis (Gomont 1899) Umezaki and Watanabe 1994	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya chlorina (Perfiliev 1923) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya compacta (Hansgirg 1892) Komárek 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya copelandii Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya corticola Johansen and Kovacik 2011	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya crassior (Skuja 1964) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya crispata (Playfair 1915) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya crosbyana (Tilden 1909) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Leptolyngbya dangeardii (Frémy 1930) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya delicatula (Compère 1985) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya desmidiacearum (Noda 1971) Umezaki and Watanabe 1994	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya diplosiphon (Woronichin 1923) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Leptolyngbya distincta (Schmidle 1897) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya ectocarpi (Gomont 1899) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya eliskae Turicchia et al. 2009	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya elongata (Thomas and Gonzalves 1965) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya endolithica (Ercegović 1932) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya ercegovicii (Čado 1958) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya erebi (West and West 1911) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya fallax (Hansgirg ex Forti 1907) Komárek 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya ferruginea (West 1904) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya fontana (Hansgirg 1892) Komárek 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Leptolyngbya foveolarum (Gomont 1892) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya fragilis (Gomont 1892) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya frigida (Fritsch 1912) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Leptolyngbya fritschiana Komárek 2007	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya fritschii Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya gardneriana Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name	synonym
    Leptolyngbya gelatinicola (Geitler 1933) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya gelatinosa (Woronichin 1923) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya geysericola (Copeland 1936) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Leptolyngbya glacialis (West and West 1911) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya gloeophila (Hansgirg 1892) Komárek 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name, later homonym	in need of a replacement
    Leptolyngbya gloeophila (Borzì 1892) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya golenkiniana (Gomont 1899) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Leptolyngbya gracilis (Lindstedt 1943) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya gracillima (Zopf ex Hansgirg 1892) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya granulifera (Copeland 1936) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Leptolyngbya halophila" (Hansgirg ex Gomont 1892) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	not validly published
    Leptolyngbya hansgirgiana Komárek 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya hendersonii (Howe 1918) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Leptolyngbya henningsii (Lemmermann 1907) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya hollerbachiana (Elenkin 1949) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Leptolyngbya homogenea (Gardner 1927) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya hormoides (Setchell and Gardner 1918) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya hypolimnetica (Campbell 1985) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya jadertina (Hansgirg 1892) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya komarovii (Anissimova 1949) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya lagerheimii (Gomont ex Gomont 1892) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya laminosa (Gomont ex Gomont 1892) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya lapidea (Geitler 1933) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya lignicola (Frémy 1930) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya lurida (Gomont 1892) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Leptolyngbya maior (Claus 1962) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya margaretheana (Schmid 1914) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya margaritata (Kufferath 1929) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya marina (Gardner 1932) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya membraniporae (Lindstedt 1943) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya minor (Gardner 1927) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya minuta Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya minutissima (Kufferath 1929) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya mucicola Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya mucosa (Gardner 1927) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya muralis (Gardner 1927) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya mycoidea (Frémy 1935) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya nana (Tilden 1896) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya nigrescens Komárek 2007	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya nodulosa Li and Brand 2007	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Leptolyngbya norvegica (Gomont 1899) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya nostochoides (Jao 1948) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya nostocorum (Bornet ex Gomont 1892) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya notata (Schmidle 1901) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya ochracea (Thuret ex Gomont 1892) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Leptolyngbya ohadii" Raanan et al. 2016	not validly published
    Leptolyngbya olivacea (Hansgirg 1892) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya orientalis (West 1902) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya patinae (Schwabe 1944) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya pauciramosa (Anissimova 1949) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Leptolyngbya perelegans (Lemmermann 1899) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya perforans (Geitler 1928) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya phormidioides (Anagnostidis 1961) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya polymorpha (Schwabe 1960) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya polysiphoniae (Frémy 1930) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya protospira (Skuja 1939) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya pseudotenuis (Stockmayer and Skuja 1937) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya pseudovalderiana (Woronichin 1930) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya purpurascens (Gomont 1890) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya purpurea (Gomont 1892) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya ramosa (Petersen 1928) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya rivulariarum (Gomont 1892) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya rubra (Tilden 1896) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya saxicola (Gardner 1932) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya schmidlei (Limanowska 1912) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya scottii (Fritsch 1912) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya scytonematicola (Gardner 1927) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya spiralis (Jao 1948) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya subcapitata (Petersen 1923) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya subcyanea (Hansgirg 1892) Komárek 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya subsalina Turicchia et al. 2009	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya subterranea (Copeland 1936) Umezaki and Watanabe 1994	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya subtilis (West 1892) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya subtilissima (Hansgirg 1892) Komárek 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya subtruncata (Woronichin 1930) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya subuliformis (Gomont 1892) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya tenerrima (Hansgirg 1892) Komárek 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya tenuis (Gomont 1892) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya tenuissima (Gardner 1927) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya terebrans (Bornet and Flahault ex Gomont 1892) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Leptolyngbya thermalis Anagnostidis 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya thermarum (Woronichin 1927) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya thermobia Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya thermophila (Elenkin 1914) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya treleasei (Gomont 1899) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya truncata (Lemmermann 1908) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya valderiana (Gomont 1892) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya vandenberghenii (Symoens 1951) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya vesiculosa (Copeland 1936) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya vincentii Komárek 2007	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya voronichiniana Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya weedii (Tilden 1898) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya weissii (Drouet 1939) Anagnostidis 2001	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya woronichinii Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Leptolyngbya yellowstonensis (Prát 1929) Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Leptolyngbyaceae Komárek et al. 2014

Assigned by: Komárek J, Kaštovský J, Mareš J, Johansen JR. Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 2014; 86:295-335.

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