| Generic name: LYNGBYA C. Agardh ex Gomont, 1892. Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot., ser. 7, 16: 118.
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| Synonyms: LPP-group A sensu Rippka et al., 1979. J. gener. Microbiol. 111: 29-34., SIPHODERMA Kützing, 1843. Linnaea 17: 220., SPIROCOLEUS Möbius, 1889. Hedwigia 28: 312., SPIROCOLEUS Möbius ex Crow, 1927. Trans. Amer. Microsc. Soc. 46(2): 147.[LYNGBYA C. Agardh, Systema Algarum, p. XXV,n.37, 1824 ex Gomont, 1892: Conferva, Oscillatoria, Lyngbya, Calothrix, Leibleinia, Siphoderma, Symphyosiphon, Phormidium, Tolypothrix, Spirocoleus spec.
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Diagnosis:
Gomont(1892): Fila vaginata, libera, simplicia, nunc caespitosa, nunc in stratum floccosum vel pannosum intricata. Vaginae firmae, tenues aut, aetate provecta, crassae et lamellosae, hyalinae, rarius luteo-fuscae. Trichomata in speciebus nonnullis ad genicula constricta, apice recta, aequalia aut leviter attenuata; membrana cellulae apicalis nonnunquam in calyptram incrassata.
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| Type species: Lyngbya confervoidesC. Agardh ex Gomont, 1892: - About 30 species. |
Descriptions:
Komárek (1992):Filamentous; filaments thick, rarely solitary, usually connected into thick, layered, sometimes leathery strata (mats), rarely tangled into free clusters of coiled filaments, usually macroscopic, up to several cm or dm in diameter, with firm sheaths, which are sometimes layered or stratified and brownish coloured, opened at the ends; very rarely without sheaths (usually only reproduction hormogonia); unbranched or slightly falsely branched with short and sporadical branches. Trichomes
isopolar, straight or slightly waved, thick (5.5-60 um), uniserial, composed of shortly cylindrical or barrel-shaped discoid tells, unconstricted or constricted at the cross walls, not attenuated or attenuated to the ends, not motile or slightly motile (but with motile hormogonia !). Cells very short, always shorter (usually several times) than long, without or (rarely) with facultative aerotopes, usually finely granulated, sometimes more at the cross walls; cell content blue-green, olive green, yellowish, brownish or pinkish, with coiled tylakoids, situated more or less over the whole cell content; end cell with thickened outer cell wall or with prominent calyptra. Heterocytes and akinetes absent.
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Reproduction strategies, life cycles, cell division:
Komárek (1992): Cell division crosswise, perpendicularly to the long axis of a trichome, usually in a rapid sequence. Sometimes irregular meristematic zones. Reproduction by +/- short, motile hormogonia, which separate from trichomes by help of necridic cells. Disintegration of mats.
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Taxonomic position, higher hierarchy: Cyanophyceae,
Oscillatoriales, Oscillatoriaceae, Oscillatorioideae
Notes to taxonomy, misinterpretations:
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Ecology, ecophysiology, ecological significance:
Komárek (1992): Usually growing in mats covering different subaerophytic or submerse substrates, several species are marine or brackish. Rarely occur in clusters of tangled filaments in metaphyton of not very polluted water bodies with_numerous water plants. Few species occur in plankton as solitary trichomes (rarely -L. birgei, etc.). Common all over the world (mainly the halophilic species).
Gomont (1892): Plantae aquae salsae, dulcis aut thermalis, nunquam terrestres. |
Physiology and biochemistry:
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Distribution, endemism, problematic citations:
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Reference strain:
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Infrageneric scheme, species concept:
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List of species:
Lyngbya aerugineo-caerulea Gomont, 1892. Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot., ser. 7, 16: 146
Lyngbya aestuarii Liebman ex Gomont, 1892. Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot., ser. 7, 16: 127
Lyngbya agardhii [Crouan] Gomont 1892
Lyngbya anomala (Rao) Anagnostidis 2001
Lyngbya antartica Gain 1911
Lungbya arboricola Brühl et Biswas 1923
Lyngbya arbustiva Serpette 1955
Lyngbya atrovirens Harvey 1859
Lyngbya biebliana Claus 1961
Lyngbya birgei G.M. Smith 1916
Lyngbya bouillonii Hoffmann et Demoulin 1991
Lyngbya calcarea (Tilden) Symoens 1948
Lyngbya capitata (Desikachary) Anagnostidis 2001
Lyngbya ceylanica var. major Pandey et Mitra 1965
Lyngbya cincinata (Itzigsohn in Lemmermann) Compère 1985
Lyngbya confervicola [false, see L. confervoides]
Lyngbya confervoides C. Agardh ex Gomont, 1892. Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot., ser. 7, 16: 136
Lyngbya connectens Brühl et Biswas 1923
Lyngbya constricta Fritsch et Rich 1929
Lyngbya corticicola Brühl et Biswas 1923
Lyngbya fritschii Anagnostidis 2001
Lyngbya gigantea Lewis, Zirkle et Patrick 1933
Lyngbya giuseppei Drouet 1942
Lyngbya hahatonkensis Drouet 1934
Lyngbya hieronymusii Lemmermann 1905
Lyngbya hollerbachii Elenkin 1949
Lyngbya hummellii Borge 1934
Lyngbya intermedia Gardner 1927
Lyngbya koreana An 1990
Lyngbya kwangsiensis (Jao) Anagnostidis 2001
Lyngbya lagerheimii Gomont ex Gomont, 1892. Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot., ser. 7, 16: 147
Lyngbya lanata Jao 1944
Lyngbya latissima Prescott 1944
Lyngbya lindavii Lemmermann 1905
Lyngbya lutea Gomont ex Gomont 1892. Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot., ser. 7, 16: 141
Lyngbya magnifica Gardner 1927
Lyngbya maharastrensis Kamat 1963
Lyngbya maior Meneghini ex Gomont 1892. Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot., ser. 7, 16: 144
Lyngbya majuscula Harvey ex Gomont 1892. Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot., ser. 7, 16: 131
Lyngbya meneghiniana Gomont ex Gomont 1892
Lyngbya martensiana Meneghini ex Gomont 1892. Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot., ser. 7, 16: 145
Lyngbya microtoma (Skuja) Anagnostidis 2001
Lyngbya nigra Agardh ex Gomont, 1892. Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot., ser. 7, 16: 145
Lyngbya ochracea Thuret ex Gomont 1892. Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot., ser. 7, 16: 149
Lyngbya ocreata Gardner 1927
Lyngbya ornata Jao 1939
Lyngbya oryzae Gupta 1957
Lyngbya patrickiana Drouet 1942
Lyngbya purpurea Gomont, 1892. Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot., ser. 7, 16: 149
Lyngbya putalis Montagne ex Gomont 1892. Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot., ser. 7, 16: 143
Lyngbya rivulariarum Gomont 1892. Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot., ser. 7, 16: 148
Lyngbya robusta (Parakutty) Komárek et Komárková-Legnerová 2006
Lyngbya salina Kützing ex Starmach 1966
Lyngbya schweickerdtii Cholnoky 1952
Lyngbya scytonematoides Gardner 1927
Lyngbya semiplena J. Agardh ex Gomont 1892. Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot., ser. 7, 16: 138
Lyngbya singularis (Jao) Anagnostidis 2001
Lyngbya sordida Gomont ex Gomont 1892
Lyngbya spiralis Geitler 1932
Lyngbya spirulinoides Gomont ex Gomont 1892. Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot., ser. 7, 16: 146
Lyngbya splendens Gardner 1927
Lyngbya stagnina Kützing ex Gomont 1892
Lyngbya subconfervoides Borge 1918
Lyngbya thermalis Kützing ex Gomont 1892
Lyngbya torpida Cholnoky-Pfannkuche 1968
Lyngbya truncicola Ghose 1924
Lyngbya usteri Schmidle 1904
Lyngbya van-zantenii Cholnoky 1952
Lyngbya versicolor Gomont, 1892. Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot., ser. 7, 16: 147
Uclerear taxa:
Lyngbya aerugineo-coerulea (Kützing) Gomont sensu Tiwari 1975
Lyngbya aeruginosa Agardh in Bertoloni 1862
Lyngbya aestuari f. aeruginosa (Agardh) Wolle sensu Setchel et Gardner 1919
Lyngbya aestuari "(Mertens) Liebmann" sensu Tifany 1934
Lyngbya aestuari "(Mertens) Liebmann" sensu Prescott 1962
Lyngbya aestuari Liebmann sensu Palik 1940
Lyngbya aestuari Liebmann sensi Rino 1972
Lyngbya aestuari "(Mertens) Liebmann" sensu Seckt 1922
Lyngbya aestuari var. arbustiva Brühl et Biswas 1923
Lyngbya aestuari var. arbustiva sensu Tiwari 1975
Lyngbya aestuari var. gaditana Gonzalez Guerrero 1947
Lyngbya aestuari var. kansuensis Jao 1947
Lyngbya ambigua Kützing 1945
Lyngbya antarctica sensu Starmach 1927 and 1966
Lyngbya antarctica sensu Péterfi et Nagy-Tóth 1963
Lyngbya antarctica var. maior Kamat 1963
Lyngbya arenaria (Agardh) ex Hansgirg 1884
Lyngbya birgei sensu Rino 1996
Lyngbya birgei sensu Tiwari 1975
Lyngbya calcarea (Nägeli) Hansgirg 1892
Lyngbya confervae (Kützing) Hansgirg 1892
Lyngbya confervoides sensu Gonzalez Guerrero 1951
Lyngbya curvata (Kützing) Rabenhorst ex Hansgirg 1892
Lyngbya lindavii sensu Skuja 1934
Lyngbya maior f. repnoi (Anisimova) Elenkin sensu Starmach et Siemińska 1979
Lyngbya major sensu Scott et Prescott 1958
Lyngbya major sensu Péterfi et al. 1960
Lyngbya major f. gujaratensis Kamat 1962
Lyngbya majuscula sensu Tiwari 1975
Lyngbya majuscula sensu Bourrelly et Manguin 1952
Lyngbya margaritacea Kützing 1843
Lyngbya naveanum Grunow in Rabenhorst 1865
Lyngbya paludinae (Witrock) ex Hansgirg 1892
Lyngbya solitaris Kützing ex Gomont 1892
Lyngbya sp. in Rich 1933
Lyngbya sp. sensu Sant'Anna et al. 1995
Lyngbya spiralis sensu Palik 1949
Lyngbya taylorii Drouet et Strickland in Strickland 1940
Phormidium grande Playfair 1918
Phormidium hydrocoleoides Drouet 1942
Phormidium solitare (Kützing) Rabenhorst 1865
Phormidium stagninum Rao 1938
Phormidium standleyi Drouet 1942
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Drawings:
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Literature:
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2.1 taxonomy: Gomont 1892, Rippka et al. 1979, Anagnostidis & Komárek 1988, Komárek 1992
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2.2 cytomorphology:
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2.3 16S rRNA sequencing:
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2.4 biology and life cycles:
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2.5 ecology:
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