WoRMS taxon details
Trichodesmium thiebautii Gomont ex Gomont, 1890
660966 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:660966)
accepted
Species
Oscillatoria thiebautii (Gomont ex Gomont) Geitler, 1932 · unaccepted (synonym)
Skujaella thiebautii (Gomont ex Gomont) J.de Toni, 1939 · unaccepted (synonym)
marine
Gomont, M. (1892 (1893)). Monographie des Oscillariées (Nostocacées Homocystées). Deuxième partie. - Lyngbyées. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique.</em> 7(16): 91-264. [details] 
Description Trichomes in free-swimming fascicles, ± straight, partly rope-like contorted, or radially-arranged ("star-like"),...
Description Trichomes in free-swimming fascicles, ± straight, partly rope-like contorted, or radially-arranged ("star-like"), blue-green or brownish-green when dried, 7-16 µm wide, not constricted at the cross-walls, briefly attenuated at the ends. Cells up to 2× as long as wide, sometimes nearly isodiametric, 8-26 µm long. Apical cells rounded, rounded with thickened cell wall (narrow calyptra?), or slightly widened and rounded.
From Komárek and Anagnostidis 2005. [details]
From Komárek and Anagnostidis 2005. [details]
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). Trichodesmium thiebautii Gomont ex Gomont, 1890. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=660966 on 2025-10-12
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Nomenclature
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]
basis of record Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). 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 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]
basis of record Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). 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 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]
Other
context source (HKRMS)
Clark, A. M. (1982). Echinoderms of Hong Kong. <em>In: Morton B, editor. Proceedings of the first international marine biological workshop: The marine flora and fauna of Hong Kong and southern China. Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong.</em> 1: 485-501. [details]
context source (Bermuda) Bodungen, B. V.; Jickells, T. D.; Smith, S. R.; Ward, J. A. D. ; Hillier, G. B. (1982). The Bermuda Marine Environment - Volume III The final report of the Bermuda Inshore Waters Investigations 1975-1980. BBSR Special Publication # 18, 3: 123 pp. [details]
context source (Bermuda) Bodungen, B. V.; Jickells, T. D.; Smith, S. R.; Ward, J. A. D. ; Hillier, G. B. (1982). The Bermuda Marine Environment - Volume III The final report of the Bermuda Inshore Waters Investigations 1975-1980. BBSR Special Publication # 18, 3: 123 pp. [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Description Trichomes in free-swimming fascicles, ± straight, partly rope-like contorted, or radially-arranged ("star-like"), blue-green or brownish-green when dried, 7-16 µm wide, not constricted at the cross-walls, briefly attenuated at the ends. Cells up to 2× as long as wide, sometimes nearly isodiametric, 8-26 µm long. Apical cells rounded, rounded with thickened cell wall (narrow calyptra?), or slightly widened and rounded.From Komárek and Anagnostidis 2005. [details]
Environment Marine, planktic, bloom forming in tropical and subtropical oceans and seas: Europe: Mediterranean Sea (Italy: Gulf of Naples); outside Europe: Canary Islands, Guadeloupe, Hawaii Islands, Red Sea, SE coast of Africa, Caribbean Sea, all round the coasts of peninsular India, Sri Lanka, etc., and neighbouring islands. From Komárek and Anagnostidis 2005.
Planktonic all round the coast of peninsular India, Ceylon, etc., and neighbouring islands. This cyanobacteria has also been reported as occurring extensively in blooms in the West coast of India near Malabar and also near Krusadai etc., and have been found to cause fish mortality. From Desikachary 1959.
Oceanum Atlanticum ad insulas Canadas et Guadalupam. From Gomont 1892. [details]
Harmful effect Trichotoxins according to Shock et al. 2011 (Gulf of Mexico). [details]
Unreviewed
Remark Drouet (1968: 213, 215) chose a specimen in PC as the lectotype of this species and assigned it toOscillatoria erythraea (Ehrenberg) Kützing (Trichodesmium erythraeum Ehrenberg). [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | イガクリアカシオ | [details] |
Published in AlgaeBase 
Published in AlgaeBase (from synonym Oscillatoria thiebautii (Gomont ex Gomont) Geitler, 1932)
Published in AlgaeBase (from synonym Skujaella thiebautii (Gomont ex Gomont) J.de Toni, 1939)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Trichodesmium thiebautii)
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 12 proteins)
To ITIS
Published in AlgaeBase
(from synonym Oscillatoria thiebautii (Gomont ex Gomont) Geitler, 1932)Published in AlgaeBase
(from synonym Skujaella thiebautii (Gomont ex Gomont) J.de Toni, 1939)To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Trichodesmium thiebautii)
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 12 proteins)
To ITIS
