Name: Lyngbya Agardh ex Gomont 1892

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: N.L. fem. n. Lyngbya

Gender: feminine

Type species: Lyngbya confervoides Agardh ex Gomont 1892

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Gomont M. Monographie des Oscillariées (Nostocacées Homocystées) deuxiéme partie -Lyngbyées. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Série 7 1892; 16:91-264.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • Nomenclatural type of the family Lyngbyaceae (Gomont 1892) Hansgirg 1892. Publication: Hansgirg A. Nova addenda in Synopsin generum subgenerumque Myxophycearum (Wallroth 1833), Stizenberger 1860. Nuova Notarisia 1892; 3:1-3.
  • 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.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Dyngbya"; "Lgngbya"; "Lijngbya"; "Ljngbya"; "Lngbya"; "Ltngbya"; "Lvngbya"; "Lyagbya"; "Lygbya"; "Lygnbya"; "Lynabya"; "Lynbgya"; "Lynbya"; "Lyngba"; "Lyngbga"; "Lyngbia"; "Lyngbija"; "Lyngbja"; "Lyngbra"; "Lyngbva"; "Lyngbyci"; "Lyngbyeus"; "Lyngbyu"; "Lyngfbya"; "Lynghbya"; "Lynghya"; "Lynglya"; "Lyngya"; "Lyngybea"; "Lynobya"; "Lynpbya"; "Lynqbya"; "Lynybya"; "Lyogbya"; "Lypgbya"; "Lysgbya"; "Lyugbya"; "Lyvgbya"; "Zyngbya".
  • This taxon name is a homonym of "Lyngbya" Agardh 1824.
  • According to Komarek and Golubic (1990) originally assigned to Cyanobacteria but probably belonging to Phaeophyceae (Pylaiella sp.). Publication: Komarek J, Golubic S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Unknown Publisher, Unknown City, 1990.
  • Full authorship: C. Agardh ex Gomont 1892.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 18
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 35
Total number of child taxa: 36

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Lyngbya aerugineocaerulea Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Lyngbya aestuarii Liebman ex Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Lyngbya arboricola Brühl and Biswas 1923	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Lyngbya baculum Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Lyngbya birgei Smith 1916	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Lyngbya bornetii Zukal 1894	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Lyngbya bouillonii Hoffmann and Demoulin 1991	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Lyngbya circumcreta West 1907	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Lyngbya confervoides Agardh ex Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Lyngbya cryptovaginata Schkorbatow 1923	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Lyngbya fontana Hansgirg 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Lyngbya gracilis Rabenhorst ex Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Lyngbya hieronymusii Lemmermann 1905	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Lyngbya kuetzingiana Kirchner ex Hansgirg 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Lyngbya kuetzingii Schmidle 1897	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Lyngbya lagerheimii Gomont ex Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Lyngbya limnetica Lemmermann 1898	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Lyngbya lutea Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Lyngbya lutescens Wallroth 1833	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Lyngbya majuscula Harvey ex Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Lyngbya martensiana Meneghini ex Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Lyngbya murrayi West and West 1911	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Lyngbya ochracea Thuret ex Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Lyngbya polychroa (Meneghini 1844) Rabenhorst 1846	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Lyngbya regalis Curren and Leong 2018	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Lyngbya rivularis Nägeli ex Kützing 1849	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Lyngbya robusta (Parukutty 1940) Komárek and Komárková-Legnerová 2007	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Lyngbya rubida Frémy 1930	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Lyngbya saxicola Filarszky 1900	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Lyngbya semiplena Agardh ex Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Lyngbya sordida Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Lyngbya spectabilis" Thuret 1890	not validly published
    Lyngbya subtilis West 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Lyngbya taylorii Drouet and Strickland 1940	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Lyngbya versicolor (Wartmann 1861) Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Lyngbya wollei (Farlow ex Gomont 1892) Speziale and Dyck 1992	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym

Parent taxon: Oscillatoriaceae Engler 1898

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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