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Lyngbya majuscula Harvey ex Gomont, 1892 
AphiaID: 177509

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
Sources  basis of record: 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]

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]

additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: León-Tejera, H., M. Gold-Morgan, and G. Montejano. 2009. Benthic Cyanoprokaryota (Cyanobacteria) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 47–56 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Stati [details]

additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details]

additional source: Algaebase, available online at http://www.algaebase.org [details]

Distribution Aldabra [details]
Djibouti [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Kenya [details]
Madagascar [details]
Mauritius [details]
Mozambique [details]
Red Sea [details]
Reunion [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Tanzania [details]
Wimereux [details]
Links Published in AlgaeBase Logo AlgaeBase
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (155 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To ITIS
Note  Remark: Drouet (1968: 263, 295) chose a specimen in LD as the lectotype of this species and assigned it to
Microcoleus lyngbyaceus (Kützing) P. Crouan & H. Crouan. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:177509
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-07-26 06:53:13Z  created  Espinel, Nadjejda
2012-10-23 12:06:30Z  checked  Guiry, Michael D.
  
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  Citation: Guiry, Michael D. (2013). Lyngbya majuscula Harvey 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=177509 on 2013-05-18
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