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Genus Lyngbya

Name: Lyngbya Agardh ex Gomont 1892

Category, proposed as: genus, 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: Analysetree FASTA download

Valid publication: Gomont M. Monographie des Oscillariées (Nostocacées Homocystées) deuxième 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. 🇺🇸
    • 🧕 Elenkin (1949) assigned this genus to the family Oscillatoriaceae Engler 1898. Publication: Elenkin AA. Sinezeleniye vodorosli SSSR. Monografiya presnovodnykh i nazemnykh Cyanophyceae, obnaruzhennykh v predelakh SSSR. Spetsial'naya (sistematicheskaya) chast', vyp. II. III. Hormogoneae (Geitl.) Elenk. (okonchaniye). Izdate'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, Moskva & Leningrad, 1949.
    • 🧕 Geitler (1925) assigned this genus to the family Oscillatoriaceae Engler 1898. Publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.
    • 🧕 Hansgirg (1892) assigned this genus to 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.
    • 🧕 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Oscillatoriaceae Engler 1898. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kastovsky J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) - state in 2004. Algological Studies 2005; 117:95-115. 🇱🇺
    • 🧕 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the family Oscillatoriaceae Engler 1898. 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. 🇨🇿
    • 🧒 Kirchner (1898) assigned the section "Spirocoleus" to this genus. Publication: Kirchner O. Schizophyceae. In: A. Engler KP (eds), Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien. I. Teil, Abt. 1a, Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig, 1898, p. 45-92.
    • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus "Rheamaris" Walter et al. 2017. Publication: Walter JM, Coutinho FH, Dutilh BE, Swings J, Thompson FL, Thompson CC. Ecogenomics and Taxonomy of Cyanobacteria Phylum. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:2132. 🇧🇷
    • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Dyngbya"; "Ijyngbya"; "Iyngbya"; "Lagngbya"; "Lamgbya"; "Langbya"; "Layngbya"; "Lgngbya"; "Liinqbtja"; "Lijngbija"; "Lijngbya"; "Lingbya"; "Ljngbya"; "Lngbya"; "Ltngbya"; "Lunabua"; "Lungbpa"; "Lungbya"; "Luyngbya"; "Lvngbya"; "Lxngbya"; "Lyagbva"; "Lyagbya"; "Lyaghya"; "Lygbya"; "Lygnbya"; "Lyigbya"; "Lyiigbya"; "Lyilgbya"; "Lyjigbya"; "Lyllgbya"; "Lymgbya"; "Lymugbya"; "Lynabya"; "Lynbgya"; "Lynbya"; "Lyncbya"; "Lyncjbya"; "Lynebya"; "Lynepya"; "Lynffbya"; "Lyngba"; "Lyngbga"; "Lyngbgya"; "Lyngbia"; "Lyngbiia"; "Lyngbija"; "Lyngbja"; "Lyngbjya"; "Lyngbpa"; "Lyngbra"; "Lyngbua"; "Lyngbva"; "Lyngbyaas"; "Lyngbyc"; "Lyngbyci"; "Lyngbyeus"; "Lyngbyga"; "Lyngbys"; "Lyngbyu"; "Lyngbyua"; "Lyngdya"; "Lyngfbya"; "Lynghbya"; "Lynghga"; "Lynghpa"; "Lynghva"; "Lynghya"; "Lynghyva"; "Lyngliya"; "Lynglya"; "Lyngobya"; "Lyngoya"; "Lyngtya"; "Lynguya"; "Lyngya"; "Lyngybea"; "Lyngybya"; "Lynobya"; "Lynpbhya"; "Lynpbya"; "Lynqbya"; "Lynrjbya"; "Lynsbya"; "Lynugbya"; "Lynybya"; "Lyogbya"; "Lypgbya"; "Lyrgbya"; "Lyrigbya"; "Lysgbya"; "Lyugbhya"; "Lyugbya"; "Lyvgbya"; "Lyvngbya"; "Tyngbya"; "Tyygbya"; "Tyyngbya"; "Zyngbya".
    • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: BRY: 3; BRNM: 2; PCC: 1; BR: 1; CCALA: 1.
    • 🧍 According to Komarek and Golubic (1990) originally assigned to Cyanobacteria but probably belonging to Phaeophyceae (Pylaiella sp.). Publication: Komárek J, Golubić S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Published by the Authors, Třeboň and Boston, 1990.
    • 🧍 Full authorship: C. Agardh ex Gomont 1892.
    • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "LNBA" for this genus name but this does not appear to be of practical relevance any longer. Publication: Pittman KF, Walczak CA, Lock CM. Codes and abbreviations for approved of effectively published names of genera of bacteria published from January 1980 to December 1990. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:571-579.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 154
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 303
Total number of child taxa: 317

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