Higher Classification: > Kingdom Bacteria > Subkingdom Negibacteria > Phylum Cyanobacteria > Class Cyanophyceae > Subclass Oscillatoriophycidae > Order Oscillatoriales > Family Microcoleaceae

Lyngbya C.Agardh ex Gomont, 1892

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Lyngbya aestuarii Liebman ex Gomont, 1892
Lyngbya agardhii Gomont, 1892
Lyngbya boryana Kirchner ex Hansgirg, 1892
Lyngbya confervoides C.Agardh ex Gomont, 1892
Lyngbya epiphytica Wille, 1913
Lyngbya lutea Gomont ex Gomont, 1892
Lyngbya majuscula Harvey ex Gomont, 1892
Lyngbya martensiana Meneghini ex Gomont, 1892
Lyngbya palikiana Claus, 1955
Lyngbya semiplena J.Agardh ex Gomont, 1892
Lyngbya sordida Gomont, 1892
Lyngbya willei Setchell & N.L.Gardner, 1918

Literature

original description	Gomont, M. (1892 (1893)). Monographie des Oscillariées (Nostocacées Homocystées). Deuxième partie. - Lyngbyées. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique. 7(16): 91-264.
basis of record	Silva, P. C.; Basson, P. W.; Moe, R. L. (1996). Catalogue of the benthic marine algae of the Indian Ocean. University of California Publications in Botany. 79: 1-1259.
basis of record	Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. searched on YYYY-MM-DD.
additional source	Hällfors, G. (2004). Checklist of Baltic Sea Phytoplankton Species (including some heterotrophic protistan groups). Baltic Sea Environment Proceedings. No. 95: 210 pp.
additional source	Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. searched on YYYY-MM-DD.

Genbank

Taxonomy

Published in AlgaeBase

Citation

Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway (taxonomic information republished from AlgaeBase with permission of M.D. Guiry). Lyngbya C.Agardh ex Gomont, 1892. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:146538