WoRMS taxon details
Lyngbya aestuarii Liebman ex Gomont, 1892
157084 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157084)
accepted
Species
Conferva aestuarii Mertens, 1816 · unaccepted (synonym)
Lyngbya littoralis (Carmichael) Cooke ex Forti, 1907 · unaccepted (synonym)
Oscillatoria aestuarii (Mertens) Lyngbye, 1818 · unaccepted (synonym)
Oscillatoria aestuarii (Mertens) Lyngbye ex Gomont, 1892 · unaccepted (synonym)
Oscillatoria aestuarii var. atrovirens Jürgens ex Gomont, 1892 · unaccepted (synonym)
Oscillatoria littoralis Carmichael, 1833 · unaccepted (synonym)
- Forma Lyngbya aestuarii f. aeruginosa Gomont, 1892
- Forma Lyngbya aestuarii f. ferruginea Gomont, 1892
- Forma Lyngbya aestuarii f. limicola Gomont, 1892
- Forma Lyngbya aestuarii f. natans Gomont, 1892
- Forma Lyngbya aestuarii f. spectabilis Gomont, 1892
- Forma Lyngbya aestuarii f. symplocoidea Gomont, 1892
- Variety Lyngbya aestuarii var. tenuis Dixit, 1936
- Variety Lyngbya aestuarii var. ferruginea Farlow, 1881 accepted as Lyngbya aestuarii f. ferruginea Gomont, 1892 (synonym)
- Variety Lyngbya aestuarii var. natans (Gomont) Lily Newton, 1931 accepted as Lyngbya aestuarii f. natans Gomont, 1892 (synonym)
- Variety Lyngbya aestuarii var. spectabilis (Gomont) Lily Newton, 1931 accepted as Lyngbya aestuarii f. spectabilis Gomont, 1892 (synonym)
- Variety Lyngbya aestuarii var. symplocoidea (Gomont) Lily Newton, 1931 accepted as Lyngbya aestuarii f. symplocoidea Gomont, 1892 (synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
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:60406
Distribution geographic region ; found in adjacent waters and noted from the Bay of Fundy
LSID urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:60406 [details]
Distribution geographic region ; found in adjacent waters and noted from the Bay of Fundy
Distribution geographic region ; found in adjacent waters and noted from the Bay of Fundy [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). Lyngbya aestuarii Liebman ex Gomont, 1892. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=157084 on 2025-04-20
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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 Linkletter, L. E. (1977). A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. <em>Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B.</em> 68: p. [details]
basis of record Linkletter, L. E. (1977). A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. <em>Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B.</em> 68: p. [details]
Other
additional source
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 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 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]
additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
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]
[request]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 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]
additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
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]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
LSID urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:60406 [details]Unreviewed
Diet phytosynthetic based on chlorophyll a [details]Distribution geographic region ; found in adjacent waters and noted from the Bay of Fundy [details]
Environment Planktonic in lakes, ponds, rivers, and sea; on soil and epiphytic on sponges. [details]
Habitat grows in mats [details]
Predators marine microorganisms and animal larvae [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]
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]
Published in AlgaeBase 
Published in AlgaeBase (from synonym Conferva aestuarii Mertens, 1816)
Published in AlgaeBase (from synonym Oscillatoria aestuarii (Mertens) Lyngbye ex Gomont, 1892)
Published in AlgaeBase (from synonym Lyngbya littoralis (Carmichael) Cooke ex Forti, 1907)
Published in AlgaeBase (from synonym Oscillatoria aestuarii (Mertens) Lyngbye, 1818)
Published in AlgaeBase (from synonym Oscillatoria aestuarii var. atrovirens Jürgens ex Gomont, 1892)
Published in AlgaeBase (from synonym Oscillatoria littoralis Carmichael, 1833)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (143 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (26 publications) (from synonym Oscillatoria littoralis Carmichael, 1833)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Conferva aestuarii Mertens, 1816)
To Dyntaxa
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Lyngbya aestuarii)
To GenBank (351 nucleotides; 5457 proteins)
To PESI
To ITIS
Published in AlgaeBase
(from synonym Conferva aestuarii Mertens, 1816)Published in AlgaeBase
(from synonym Oscillatoria aestuarii (Mertens) Lyngbye ex Gomont, 1892)Published in AlgaeBase
(from synonym Lyngbya littoralis (Carmichael) Cooke ex Forti, 1907)Published in AlgaeBase
(from synonym Oscillatoria aestuarii (Mertens) Lyngbye, 1818)Published in AlgaeBase
(from synonym Oscillatoria aestuarii var. atrovirens Jürgens ex Gomont, 1892)Published in AlgaeBase
(from synonym Oscillatoria littoralis Carmichael, 1833)To Biodiversity Heritage Library (143 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (26 publications) (from synonym Oscillatoria littoralis Carmichael, 1833)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Conferva aestuarii Mertens, 1816)
To Dyntaxa
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Lyngbya aestuarii)
To GenBank (351 nucleotides; 5457 proteins)
To PESI
To ITIS
