WoRMS taxon details
Lyngbya aestuarii Liebman ex Gomont, 1892
AphiaID: 157084
AphiaID: 157084
| Classification: Biota > Bacteria (Kingdom) > Gracilicutes (Subkingdom) > Cyanobacteria (Phylum) > Cyanophyceae (Class) > Oscillatoriophycideae (Subclass) > Oscillatoriales (Order) > Oscillatoriaceae (Family) > Lyngbya (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Lyngbya C.Agardh ex Gomont, 1892 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Conferva aestuarii Mertens, 1816 (synonym) Lyngbya aestuarii (Mertens) Lyngbye, 1841 (synonym) Lyngbya aestuarii (Mertens) Liebman, 1839 (synonym) Oscillatoria aestuarii (Mertens) Lyngbye ex Gomont, 1892 (synonym) Oscillatoria aestuarii (Mertens) Lyngbye, 1818 (synonym) Oscillatoria aestuarii var. atrovirens Jürgens ex Gomont, 1892 (synonym) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Silva, C., P. Basson & R. Moe (1996). Catalogue of the Benthic Marine Algae of the Indian Ocean. Volume 79 of University of California Publications in Botany (ISBN 0-520-09810-2). [details] basis of record: Algaebase, available online at http://www.algaebase.org [details] basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] basis of record: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details] additional source: Hällfors, G. (2004). Checklist of Baltic Sea Phytoplankton Species (including some heterotrophic protistan groups). Baltic Sea Environment Proceedings No. 95: 210 pp., available online at http://www.helcom.fi/stc/files/Publications/Proceedings/bsep95.pdf [details] from synonym: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Djibouti [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Israeli part of the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] North West Atlantic [details] Reunion [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Tanzania [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | Published in AlgaeBase  To Biodiversity Heritage Library (128 publications) To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To PESI To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: phytosynthetic based on chlorophyll a [details] Distribution: geographic region ; found in adjacent waters and noted from the Bay of Fundy [details] Habitat: grows in mats [details] Predators: marine microorganisms and animal larvae [details] remark: produces toxins: aplysiatoxins, lyngbiatoxin-a, LPS's; pasteur culture collection strain PCC 7419 which was originally isolated from a salt marsh in Woods Hole, Mass. [details] Remark: Drouet (1968: 263, 292) chose a specimen in L as the lectotype of this species and assigned it to Microcoleus lyngbyaceus (Kützing) P. Crouan & H. Crouan. Drouet (1968: 263, 292) chose a specimen in L as the lectotype of this species and assigned it to Microcoleus lyngbyaceus (Kützing) P. Crouan & H. Crouan. [details] Reproduction: Filamentous non-heterocystous cyanobacteria that divide in only one plane. Reproduce by transcellular trichome breakage. [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157084 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Guiry, Michael D. (2013). Lyngbya aestuarii Liebman ex Gomont, 1892. In: Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2013). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway (taxonomic information republished from AlgaeBase with permission of M.D. Guiry). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=157084 on 2013-05-21 | ||||||||||||||
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