Genus Lyngbya

Name: Lyngbya Agardh ex Gomont 1892

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Lyng’by.a. N.L. fem. n. Lyngbya, named to honor Hans Christian Lyngbye, Danish botanist

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Lyngby-), LYN͡G-by-a

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

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 156
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 302
Total number of child taxa: 315

Parent taxon: Microcoleaceae (Hansgirg 1892) Strunecký et al. 2013

Assigned by: Strunecky O, Ivanova AP, Mares J. An updated classification of cyanobacterial orders and families based on phylogenomic and polyphasic analysis. J Phycol 2023; 59:12-51. 🇨🇿

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Record number: 6337
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