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

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, conserved name

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 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.
  • Full authorship: C. Agardh ex Gomont 1892.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 9
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 22
Total number of child taxa: 22

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Lyngbya aerugineocaerulea Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN	synonym
    Lyngbya aestuarii Liebman ex Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN	correct name
    Lyngbya arboricola Brühl and Biswas 1923	validly published under the ICN	correct name
    Lyngbya baculum Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN	synonym
    Lyngbya birgei Smith 1916	validly published under the ICN	synonym
    Lyngbya bornetii Zukal 1894	validly published under the ICN	synonym
    Lyngbya bouillonii Hoffmann and Demoulin 1991	validly published under the ICN	synonym
    Lyngbya circumcreta West 1907	validly published under the ICN	synonym
    Lyngbya confervoides Agardh ex Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN	correct name
    Lyngbya cryptovaginata Schkorbatow 1923	validly published under the ICN	synonym
    Lyngbya fontana Hansgirg 1893	validly published under the ICN	synonym
    Lyngbya hieronymusii Lemmermann 1905	validly published under the ICN	synonym
    Lyngbya kuetzingiana Kirchner ex Hansgirg 1893	validly published under the ICN	synonym
    Lyngbya kuetzingii Schmidle 1897	validly published under the ICN	correct name
    Lyngbya lagerheimii Gomont ex Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN	correct name
    Lyngbya martensiana Meneghini ex Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN	correct name
    Lyngbya murrayi West and West 1911	validly published under the ICN	synonym
    Lyngbya rubida Frémy 1930	validly published under the ICN	synonym
    Lyngbya semiplena Agardh ex Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN	correct name
    Lyngbya sordida Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN	correct name
    Lyngbya taylorii Drouet and Strickland 1940	validly published under the ICN	correct name
    Lyngbya wollei (Farlow ex Gomont 1892) Speziale and Dyck 1992	validly published under the ICN	synonym

Parent taxon: [Oscillatoriaceae]

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