Higher Classification: > Kingdom Bacteria > Subkingdom Negibacteria > Phylum Cyanobacteria > Class Cyanophyceae > Order Leptolyngbyales > Family Leptolyngbyaceae

Leptolyngbya Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Leptolyngbya amplivaginata (Goor) Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988
Leptolyngbya angustissima (West & G.S.West) Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988
Leptolyngbya antarctica (West & G.S.West) Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988
Leptolyngbya boryana (Gomont) Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988
Leptolyngbya calotrichoides (Gomont) Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988
Leptolyngbya cebennensis (Gomont) I.Umezaki & M.Watanabe, 1994
Leptolyngbya compacta Komárek, 2001
Leptolyngbya ectocarpi (Gomont) Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988
Leptolyngbya ercegovicii (Cado) Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988
Leptolyngbya foveolarum (Gomont) Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988
Leptolyngbya fragilis (Gomont) Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988
Leptolyngbya gracillima (Hansgirg) Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988
Leptolyngbya halophila (Hansgirg) Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988
Leptolyngbya lagerheimii (Gomont ex Gomont) Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988
Leptolyngbya laminosa (Gomont ex Gomont) Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988
Leptolyngbya lurida (Gomont) Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988
Leptolyngbya nana (Tilden) Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988
Leptolyngbya norvegica (Gomont) Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988
Leptolyngbya nostocorum (Bornet ex Gomont) Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988
Leptolyngbya notata (Schmidle) Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988
Leptolyngbya ochracea (Thuret ex Gomont) Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988
Leptolyngbya perelegans (Lemmermann) Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988
Leptolyngbya perforans (Geitler) Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988
Leptolyngbya phormidioides (Anagnostidis) Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988
Leptolyngbya purpurascens (Gomont ex Gomont) Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988
Leptolyngbya rivulariarum (Gomont) Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988
Leptolyngbya subtilis (West) Anagnostidis, 2001
Leptolyngbya subtilissima (Hansgirg) Komárek, 2001
Leptolyngbya subuliformis (Gomont) Anagnostidis, 2001
Leptolyngbya tenuis (Gomont) Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988
Leptolyngbya terebrans (Bornet & Flahault ex Gomont) Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988
Leptolyngbya truncata (Lemmermann) Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988
Leptolyngbya undosa (Cado) Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988
Leptolyngbya valderiana (Gomont) Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988
Leptolyngbya weedii (Tilden) Anagnostidis, 2001

Literature

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.

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). Leptolyngbya Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988. 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:146994