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Lyngbya  C. Agardh ex Gomont
Taxonomic Serial No.: 870

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Bacteria  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
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  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2024   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomBacteria Cavalier-Smith, 2002 – bactéries, bacteria, bacterias, bactérias  
    SubkingdomNegibacteria Cavalier-Smith, 2002  
       PhylumCyanobacteriota Oren, Mares & Rippka  
          ClassCyanophyceae Schaffner – cyanophytes, blue-green algae  
             OrderOscillatoriales Schaffner  
                FamilyMicrocoleaceae Komárek et al.  
                   GenusLyngbya C. Agardh ex Gomont  
    Direct Children:  
                      Species Lyngbya adriae Ercegovic  
                      Species Lyngbya aequalis Rabenhorst ex Forti  
                      Species Lyngbya aestuarii Liebman ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya africana Cholnoky  
                      Species Lyngbya agardhii Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya agglutinata P. Crouan & H. Crouan ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya algicola Hoffmann  
                      Species Lyngbya amphibia Kützing ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya amphiroae C.-C. Jao  
                      Species Lyngbya anguina Montagne ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya annulata Suhr ex Forti  
                      Species Lyngbya anomala (C.B. Rao) Umezaki & M. Watanabe  
                      Species Lyngbya antarctica Gain  
                      Species Lyngbya arachnoidea Kützing ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya arboricola Brühl & Biswas  
                      Species Lyngbya arbustiva Serpette  
                      Species Lyngbya arenaria (Gomont) Hansgirg  
                      Species Lyngbya biebliana Claus  
                      Species Lyngbya boettcheriana Rabenhorst ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya bonariensis Seckt  
                      Species Lyngbya borgertii Lemmermann  
                      Species Lyngbya borziana Macchiati ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya brignolii De Notaris ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya bugellensis Rabenhorst ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya caerulea Rabenhorst ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya calcarea (Tilden) Symoens  
                      Species Lyngbya calida O. Borge  
                      Species Lyngbya capitata (Desikachary) Anagnostidis  
                      Species Lyngbya cataracta Wolle ex Forti  
                      Species Lyngbya chernovii Molinari & Guiry  
                      Species Lyngbya chungii Drouet  
                      Species Lyngbya cilicium Kützing ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya cincinnata (Itzigsohn) Compère  
                      Species Lyngbya cinerascens Kützing ex Biswas  
                      Species Lyngbya cladophorae Tilden  
                      Species Lyngbya codicola Setchell & N.L. Gardner  
                      Species Lyngbya compacta P. Crouan & H. Crouan ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya complectens Frémy & Nasr  
                      Species Lyngbya confervoides C. Agardh ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya conglutinata Kützing ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya connectens Brühl & Biswas  
                      Species Lyngbya consociata Setchell & N.L. Gardner  
                      Species Lyngbya constricta F.E. Fritsch & F. Rich  
                      Species Lyngbya contexta C. Agardh ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya corticicola Brühl & Biswas  
                      Species Lyngbya curvata Rabenhorst ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya cutleriae Harvey ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya cyanea P. Crouan & H. Crouan ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya dangeardii Frémy  
                      Species Lyngbya decipiens P. Crouan & H. Crouan ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya demoulinii Hoffmann  
                      Species Lyngbya dictyothrix Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya discolor A. Braun ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya dixitii N.D. Kamat  
                      Species Lyngbya drouetii G. De Toni  
                      Species Lyngbya elongata O. Borge  
                      Species Lyngbya epizooica Setchell & N.L. Gardner  
                      Species Lyngbya erosa Liebman ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya fezzanensis Marchesoni  
                      Species Lyngbya flocculosa Zanardini ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya fluitans Hering ex Forti  
                      Species Lyngbya fluviatilis G. Martens ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya fremyi Vouk  
                      Species Lyngbya fritschii Anagnostidis  
                      Species Lyngbya fusca P. Crouan & H. Crouan ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya fuscovaginata Starmach  
                      Species Lyngbya gigantea I.F. Lewis, C. Zirkle & R. Patrick  
                      Species Lyngbya giuseppei Drouet  
                      Species Lyngbya graveolens P. Crouan & H. Crouan ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya griffithsiae P. Crouan & H. Crouan ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya guaymensis Drouet  
                      Species Lyngbya guianensis Kützing ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya hahatonkensis Drouet  
                      Species Lyngbya hamelii Bourrelly  
                      Species Lyngbya hansgirgii J.B. De Toni ex Forti  
                      Species Lyngbya hegiana Schmidle  
                      Species Lyngbya hemensii Cholnoky-Pfannkuche  
                      Species Lyngbya heterospiralis Obukhova  
                      Species Lyngbya hollerbachii Elenkin  
                      Species Lyngbya hummellii O. Borge  
                      Species Lyngbya hyalina Harvey ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya inflexa Frémy  
                      Species Lyngbya intermedia Hansgirg  
                      Species Lyngbya investiens Hauck ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya irregularis Pankow & Jahnke  
                      Species Lyngbya jacutica Kisselev ex Elenkin  
                      Species Lyngbya jaoi Molinari & Guiry  
                      Species Lyngbya joanniana (Gomont) Hansgirg  
                      Species Lyngbya juignetii Frémy  
                      Species Lyngbya kelanensis Grunow ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya kolhapurensis Kamat  
                      Species Lyngbya koreana G.S. An  
                      Species Lyngbya kuehniana Migula  
                      Species Lyngbya kwangsiensis (C.-C. Jao) Anagnostidis  
                      Species Lyngbya laetevirens P. Crouan & H. Crouan ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya lanata C.-C. Jao  
                      Species Lyngbya latilimba P. Crouan & H. Crouan ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya laxespiralis Skuja  
                      Species Lyngbya lignicola Zanardini ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya lindavii Lemmermann  
                      Species Lyngbya lithophila Ercegovic  
                      Species Lyngbya litorea Hauck ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya loriae Forti  
                      Species Lyngbya lucknowensis Prasad, R.K. Mehrotra & Y. Singh  
                      Species Lyngbya lusitanica Montagne ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya lutea Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya luteofusca Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya luteola P. Crouan & H. Crouan ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya maharastrensis Kamat  
                      Species Lyngbya major Meneghini ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya majuscula Harvey ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya mandruzzatiana Meneghini ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya margaritacea Kützing ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya martensiana Meneghini ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya mauretanica Montagne ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya membranacea Thuret ex Hansgirg  
                      Species Lyngbya meneghiniana Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya mexiensis Hansgirg  
                      Species Lyngbya microtoma (Skuja) Anagnostidis  
                      Species Lyngbya minor Roemer ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya minutissima Treub ex Ernst  
                      Species Lyngbya mittsii Phillips  
                      Species Lyngbya mucor Kützing ex Forti  
                      Species Lyngbya muralis (Dillwyn) C. Agardh  
                      Species Lyngbya muscicola Zanardini ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya naegeliana Hansgirg  
                      Species Lyngbya nanyohensis C.-C. Jao  
                      Species Lyngbya natans Hansgirg  
                      Species Lyngbya naveana Grunow ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya nemalii Rabenhorst ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya nigra C. Agardh ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya noronhae Dickie ex Forti  
                      Species Lyngbya novae-guineae Hansgirg  
                      Species Lyngbya ocreata N.L. Gardner  
                      Species Lyngbya olivacea Zanardini ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya ornata C.-C. Jao  
                      Species Lyngbya orsinii Piccone ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya oryzae Gupta  
                      Species Lyngbya oscillarioides Meneghini ex Forti & Savelli  
                      Species Lyngbya palikiana Claus  
                      Species Lyngbya palmarum Brühl & Biswas  
                      Species Lyngbya paludinae Hansgirg  
                      Species Lyngbya parva Hoffmann  
                      Species Lyngbya patrickiana Drouet  
                      Species Lyngbya paulistana P.A.C. Senna  
                      Species Lyngbya pellucida Umezaki  
                      Species Lyngbya perrottetii Bornet & Thuret ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya plana Dickie ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya platensis Seckt  
                      Species Lyngbya plicata Y.-Y. Li  
                      Species Lyngbya pliniana Brügger ex Forti  
                      Species Lyngbya podolica (Gutwinski) Gutwinski  
                      Species Lyngbya prasina Montagne ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya profundalis Lindstedt  
                      Species Lyngbya prostrata Setchell & N.L. Gardner  
                      Species Lyngbya protensa Zanardini ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya pulcherrima Kützing ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya punctalis Hassall ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya pusilla Harvey ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya pygmaea Setchell  
                      Species Lyngbya rigidissima Zanardini ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya rubro-violacea P. Crouan & H. Crouan ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya rufescens O. Kirchner ex Hansgirg  
                      Species Lyngbya salina Kützing ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya schmidlei N.D. Kamat  
                      Species Lyngbya schowiana Kützing ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya schweickerdtii Cholnoky  
                      Species Lyngbya sciathia (Miliarakis) Hansgirg  
                      Species Lyngbya scytonematoides N.L. Gardner  
                      Species Lyngbya semiplena J. Agardh ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya singularis C.-C. Jao  
                      Species Lyngbya sinuosa Setchell & N.L. Gardner  
                      Species Lyngbya skujae Desikachary  
                      Species Lyngbya smaragdina Hansgirg  
                      Species Lyngbya sordida Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya spiralis Geitler  
                      Species Lyngbya spiraloides C.G.M. Archibald  
                      Species Lyngbya spirulinoides Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya spissa Hansgirg  
                      Species Lyngbya splendens N.L. Gardner  
                      Species Lyngbya spongiosa Zanardini ex Forti  
                      Species Lyngbya stenothricha Hansgirg  
                      Species Lyngbya striata Kufferath  
                      Species Lyngbya stuhlmannii Hieronymus  
                      Species Lyngbya subacuminata G.S. An  
                      Species Lyngbya subaestuarii F.E. Fritsch & F. Rich  
                      Species Lyngbya subarticulata Hooker f. & Harvey ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya subcapitata Y. Yoneda  
                      Species Lyngbya subconfervoides O. Borge  
                      Species Lyngbya subsemiplena K. Starmach  
                      Species Lyngbya sudetica O. Kirchner ex Hansgirg  
                      Species Lyngbya tchadensis Compère  
                      Species Lyngbya terrestris Roemer ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya thalassiae Phillips  
                      Species Lyngbya thermalis Kützing ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya tomentosa Kützing ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya torpida Cholnoky-Pfannkuche  
                      Species Lyngbya torta P. Crouan & H. Crouan ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya transvaalensis Cholnoky  
                      Species Lyngbya treubiana Hansgirg  
                      Species Lyngbya tropica Kützing ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya truncicola S.L. Ghose  
                      Species Lyngbya turfosa Cooke ex Forti  
                      Species Lyngbya uliginosa Claassen  
                      Species Lyngbya urbica Zanardini ex Forti  
                      Species Lyngbya usteri Schmidle  
                      Species Lyngbya vanzantenii Cholnoky  
                      Species Lyngbya variabilis C. Agardh ex De Toni  
                      Species Lyngbya verbeekiana Treub ex Ernst  
                      Species Lyngbya vermicularis Hassall ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya versatilis Pöppig ex Forti  
                      Species Lyngbya villosa Rabenhorst  
                      Species Lyngbya violacea (Meneghini) Rabenhorst  
                      Species Lyngbya virescens Hassall ex Gomont  
                      Species Lyngbya viridissima Zanardini ex Forti  
                      Species Lyngbya vulpina O. Kirchner ex Hansgirg  
                      Species Lyngbya welwitschii Hansgirg  
       

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  Source: Cyanobacteria of the World (2024), database (version 2024)  
  Acquired: 2024   
  Notes: Update prepared for ITIS by Dail Laughinghouse, Forrest Leffler, and David Berthold (University of Florida); derived from CyanoSeq with additional reference to CyanoDB, Algaebase, and literature   
  Reference for: Lyngbya   
       
  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
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