WoRMS taxon details
Lyngbya majuscula Harvey ex Gomont, 1892
660754 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:660754)
accepted
Species
Conferva majuscula Dillwyn, 1809 · unaccepted (synonym)
Elisa majuscula (Dillwyn) S.F.Gray, 1821 · unaccepted (synonym)
Lyngbya crassa J.Agardh ex Gomont, 1892 · unaccepted
Lyngbya majuscula var. kerguelenensis Reinsch ex Forti, 1907 · unaccepted (synonym)
Phormidium majusculum (Dillwyn) Kützing, 1843 · unaccepted
- Variety Lyngbya majuscula var. chekiaensis Rao, 1936 †
- Variety Lyngbya majuscula var. pacifica Harvey ex Forti, 1907
- Variety Lyngbya majuscula var. spongophila Weber-van Bosse, 1926
- Variety Lyngbya majuscula var. kerguelenensis Reinsch ex Forti, 1907 accepted as Lyngbya majuscula Harvey ex Gomont, 1892 (synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh
Gomont, M. (1892 (1893)). Monographie des Oscillariées (Nostocacées Homocystées). Deuxième partie. - Lyngbyées. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique.</em> 7(16): 91-264. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:100641
Description Thallus widely expanded, up to several (5-7) cm in length, dark blue-green or black-green, brown to yellowish brown....
Distribution Marine, on rocks or sand in the upper supra- and lower littoral and coastal zones, in mangroves, shallow bays, sometimes on...
LSID urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:100641 [details]
Description Thallus widely expanded, up to several (5-7) cm in length, dark blue-green or black-green, brown to yellowish brown....
Description Thallus widely expanded, up to several (5-7) cm in length, dark blue-green or black-green, brown to yellowish brown. Filaments very long, often strongly curved or wavy, rarely slightly coiled. Sheaths colourless, when young thin, un-lamellated, later very wide, lamellated, outside rough, up to 15 μm thick. Tri-homes cylindrical, blue-green, blackish, dull-green, brownish green or grey violet to reddish violet, 15-20-40-60 (80?) μm wide, not constricted at the ungranulated cross-walls, not attenuated at the ends. Cells very short, discoid, 1/6-1/15x as long as wide, 2-4 (8) μm long; apical cells rounded, without calyptra. [details]
Distribution Marine, on rocks or sand in the upper supra- and lower littoral and coastal zones, in mangroves, shallow bays, sometimes on...
Distribution Marine, on rocks or sand in the upper supra- and lower littoral and coastal zones, in mangroves, shallow bays, sometimes on macroalgae, rarely floating, distributed worldwide, pantropical species, possibly cosmopolitan, but surely not in cold seas; sometimes grows in massive mats (registered mainly in northern and eastern Australia, Indonesia, and SE Africa - Zanzibar); records from tropical and subtropical freshwaters, and moist soils among mosses near thermal springs, represent evidently other special species; (compare L. latissima, L. magnifica and others). [details]
Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2024). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway (taxonomic information republished from AlgaeBase with permission of M.D. Guiry). Lyngbya majuscula Harvey ex Gomont, 1892. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=660754 on 2024-09-24
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original description
Gomont, M. (1892 (1893)). Monographie des Oscillariées (Nostocacées Homocystées). Deuxième partie. - Lyngbyées. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique.</em> 7(16): 91-264. [details]
context source (HKRMS) Hodgkiss, I. J. (1984). Seasonal patterns of intertidal algal distribution in Hong Kong. <em>Asian Marine Biology 1.The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.</em> 49-57. [details]
context source (Bermuda) Collins, F. S.; Hervey, A. B. (1917). The algae of Bermuda. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 53(1): 1-195 [details]
basis of record Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2024). AlgaeBase. <em>World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway.</em> searched on YYYY-MM-DD., available online at http://www.algaebase.org [details]
basis of record Hällfors, G. (2004). Checklist of Baltic Sea Phytoplankton Species (including some heterotrophic protistan groups). <em>Baltic Sea Environment Proceedings.</em> No. 95: 210 pp., available online at http://helcom.fi/Lists/Publications/BSEP95.pdf [details] Available for editors [request]
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]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [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 Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Silva, P. C.; Basson, P. W.; Moe, R. L. (1996). Catalogue of the benthic marine algae of the Indian Ocean. <em>University of California Publications in Botany.</em> 79: 1-1259., available online at https://books.google.be/books?hl=pt-PT&lr=&id=vtBdDwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR11&dq=Catalogue+of+the+benthic+marine+algae+of+the+Indian+Ocean&ots=FL-YOKu8Cx&sig=3PmT926F1rNHQTf1AhDeY-ztmu4#v=onepage&q=Catalogue%20of%20the%20benthic%20marine%20algae%20of%20the%20 [details]
context source (HKRMS) Hodgkiss, I. J. (1984). Seasonal patterns of intertidal algal distribution in Hong Kong. <em>Asian Marine Biology 1.The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.</em> 49-57. [details]
context source (Bermuda) Collins, F. S.; Hervey, A. B. (1917). The algae of Bermuda. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 53(1): 1-195 [details]
basis of record Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2024). AlgaeBase. <em>World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway.</em> searched on YYYY-MM-DD., available online at http://www.algaebase.org [details]
basis of record Hällfors, G. (2004). Checklist of Baltic Sea Phytoplankton Species (including some heterotrophic protistan groups). <em>Baltic Sea Environment Proceedings.</em> No. 95: 210 pp., available online at http://helcom.fi/Lists/Publications/BSEP95.pdf [details] Available for editors [request]
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]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [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 Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Silva, P. C.; Basson, P. W.; Moe, R. L. (1996). Catalogue of the benthic marine algae of the Indian Ocean. <em>University of California Publications in Botany.</em> 79: 1-1259., available online at https://books.google.be/books?hl=pt-PT&lr=&id=vtBdDwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR11&dq=Catalogue+of+the+benthic+marine+algae+of+the+Indian+Ocean&ots=FL-YOKu8Cx&sig=3PmT926F1rNHQTf1AhDeY-ztmu4#v=onepage&q=Catalogue%20of%20the%20benthic%20marine%20algae%20of%20the%20 [details]
From editor or global species database
LSID urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:100641 [details]From regional or thematic species database
Description Thallus widely expanded, up to several (5-7) cm in length, dark blue-green or black-green, brown to yellowish brown. Filaments very long, often strongly curved or wavy, rarely slightly coiled. Sheaths colourless, when young thin, un-lamellated, later very wide, lamellated, outside rough, up to 15 μm thick. Tri-homes cylindrical, blue-green, blackish, dull-green, brownish green or grey violet to reddish violet, 15-20-40-60 (80?) μm wide, not constricted at the ungranulated cross-walls, not attenuated at the ends. Cells very short, discoid, 1/6-1/15x as long as wide, 2-4 (8) μm long; apical cells rounded, without calyptra. [details]Distribution Marine, on rocks or sand in the upper supra- and lower littoral and coastal zones, in mangroves, shallow bays, sometimes on macroalgae, rarely floating, distributed worldwide, pantropical species, possibly cosmopolitan, but surely not in cold seas; sometimes grows in massive mats (registered mainly in northern and eastern Australia, Indonesia, and SE Africa - Zanzibar); records from tropical and subtropical freshwaters, and moist soils among mosses near thermal springs, represent evidently other special species; (compare L. latissima, L. magnifica and others). [details]
Harmful effect This species is known to produce the dermatotoxin lyngbyatoxin and to be the cause of "Swimmer's itch" when in direct contact with human skin. [details]
From other sources
Environment In both fresh and sea water situations in India, Burma and Ceylon. [details]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]
Language | Name | |
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Japanese | オオクダモ | [details] |
Published in AlgaeBase (from synonym Phormidium majusculum (Dillwyn) Kützing, 1843)
Published in AlgaeBase (from synonym Lyngbya crassa J.Agardh ex Gomont, 1892)
Published in AlgaeBase
Published in AlgaeBase (from synonym Conferva majuscula Dillwyn, 1809)
Published in AlgaeBase (from synonym Elisa majuscula (Dillwyn) S.F.Gray, 1821)
Published in AlgaeBase (from synonym Lyngbya majuscula var. kerguelenensis Reinsch ex Forti, 1907)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (180 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (20 publications) (from synonym Conferva majuscula Dillwyn, 1809)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Lyngbya majuscula)
To GenBank (18 nucleotides; 96 proteins)
To ITIS
Published in AlgaeBase (from synonym Lyngbya crassa J.Agardh ex Gomont, 1892)
Published in AlgaeBase
Published in AlgaeBase (from synonym Conferva majuscula Dillwyn, 1809)
Published in AlgaeBase (from synonym Elisa majuscula (Dillwyn) S.F.Gray, 1821)
Published in AlgaeBase (from synonym Lyngbya majuscula var. kerguelenensis Reinsch ex Forti, 1907)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (180 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (20 publications) (from synonym Conferva majuscula Dillwyn, 1809)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Lyngbya majuscula)
To GenBank (18 nucleotides; 96 proteins)
To ITIS