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]
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
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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
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additional source
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]
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]
From editor or global species database
LSID urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:60406 [details]From other sources
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]