Lyngbya majuscula Harvey ex Gomont

Classification:
Empire Prokaryota
Kingdom Bacteria
Subkingdom Negibacteria
Phylum Cyanobacteria
Class Cyanophyceae
Subclass Oscillatoriophycideae
Order Oscillatoriales
Family Oscillatoriaceae
Genus Lyngbya

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Panama. In situ: thalli forming tangled masses of coarse filaments. D.S. Littler. © Diane Littler (littlerd@si.edu).

Panama. Cells disc-shaped, not constricted at cross walls; apical cell rounded or dome-shaped. D.S. Littler. © Diane Littler (littlerd@si.edu).

Panama. Apical cell rounded or dome-shaped, cap absent. D.S. Littler. © Diane Littler (littlerd@si.edu).

Panama. Trichomes mostly straight, occasionally curved. D.S. Littler. © Diane Littler (littlerd@si.edu).

Lyngbya majuscula Harvey ex Gomont Panama. In situ: thalli forming tangled masses of coarse filaments

Publication details
Lyngbya majuscula Harvey ex Gomont 1892: 131

Original publication: Gomont, M. (1892 '1893'). Monographie des Oscillariées (Nostocacées homocystées). Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Series 7 16: 91-264, Plates 1-7.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Lyngbya is Lyngbya confervoides C.Agardh.

Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Conferva majuscula Dillwyn 1809
Oscillatoria majuscula (Dillwyn) Dillwyn 1817
Elisa majuscula (Dillwyn) S.F.Gray 1821
Lyngbya majuscula (Dillwyn) Harvey 1833
Lyngbya major var. kerguelenensis Reinsch 1875
Lyngbya majuscula var. kerguelenensis Reinsch ex Forti 1907

Distribution by country

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Lyngbya majuscula (Dillwyn) Harvey)
Ireland: Antrim (Adams 1907), Mayo (Cotton 1912).

England: Norfolk (Charpy et al. 2012 ).

Europe: Britain (Lipkin & Silva 2002, Whitton et al. 2003), Ireland (Adams 1907, Cotton 1912), Romania (Caraus 2002, Caraus 2012), Spain (Lázaro Ibiza 1889, Sauvageau 1897, Miranda 1931, Seoane-Camba 1965, Alvarez-Cobelas & Gallardo 1988, Gorostiaga et al., 2004, Valenzuela Miranda 2005, Bárbara et al. 2005, Cires Rodriguez & Cuesta Moliner 2010), Turkey (Europe) (Taskin et al. 2008 ).

Atlantic Islands: Canary Islands (Haroun et al. 2002, Anon 2011).

North America: Florida (Taylor 1928, Littler, Littler & Hanisak 2008), Isla Guadalupe (Setchell & Gardner 1930).

Central America: Belize (Littler & Littler 1997), Islas Revillagigedo (Taylor 1945).

Caribbean Islands: Caribbean (Littler & Littler 2000).

South America: Colombia (Díaz-Pulido & Díaz-Ruíz 2003), Venezuela (Ganesan 1990).

Africa: Djibouti (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Egypt (Papenfuss 1968), Eritrea (Lipkin & Silva 2002), Ethiopia (Papenfuss 1968), Kenya (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Madagascar (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Charpy et al. 2012 ), Mauritius (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Mozambique (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), South Africa (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Tanzania (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Oliveira, Österlund & Mtolera 2005).

Indian Ocean Islands: Aldabra Islands (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Chagos Archipelago (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Comoros and Mayotte (Charpy et al. 2012 ), Laccadive Islands (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Maldives (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Réunion (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Rodrigues Island (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Seychelles (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).

South-west Asia: India (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Ghosh & Keshri 2011), Iran (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Kuwait (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Pakistan (Leghari et al. 2005, Leghari et al. 2005), Sri Lanka (Børgesen 1936, Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Turkey (Asia) (Taskin et al. 2008 ), Yemen (Papenfuss 1968).

Asia: Japan (Titlyanov et al 2006), Taiwan (Huang 2000, Anon. 2012, Anon. 2012).

South-east Asia: Indonesia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Malaysia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Singapore (Pham et al. 2011).

Australia and New Zealand: New Zealand (Broady & Merican 2012), Queensland (Day et al. 1995, Phillips 2002, Bostock & Holland 2010), Western Australia (Huisman et al. 2009).

Pacific Islands: Federated States of Micronesia (Tsuda 2006), French Polynesia (Payri, N'Yeurt & Orempuller 2000), Guam (Charpy et al. 2012 ), Hawaiian Islands (Magruder & Hunt 1979, Huisman, Abbott & Smith 2007, Huisman, Abbott & Smith 2007), Mariana Islands (Tsuda 2003, Tsuda 2003), Republic of Palau (Ohba et al 2007), Wake Atoll (Tsuda, Abbott & Foster 2006).

(as Lyngbya majuscula Harvey ex Gomont)
Europe: Spain (Miranda 1934, Cremades, Bárbara, Granja & Veiga 1997, Peña & Bárbara 2008).

Atlantic Islands: Canary Islands (Haroun et al. 2003).

South America: Brazil (Oliveira Filho 1977, Werner 2010).

Pacific Islands: Marshall Islands (Taylor 1950).

Nomenclatural notes
Engene et al. (2010: 593) cite Harvey ex Gomont as the authority for this species. - (14 Sep 2010) - Wendy Guiry

Key references
Engene, N., Coates, R.C. & Gerwick, W.H. (2010). 16S rRNA gene heterogeneity in the filamentous marine cyanobacterial genus Lyngbya. Journal of Phycology 46(3): 591-601.

CCAP Cultures
CCAP Strain Number 1446/4 Lyngbya majuscula Harvey ex Gomont
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SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Lyngbya&species=majuscula

SCCAP Cultures
Cultures from the Scandinavian Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Copenhagen (SCCAP) and Protozoa may be viewed at http://www.sccap.dk/search/algaebase.asp?Genus=Lyngbya&Species=majuscula

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 18 April 2005 by Fabio Rindi

Verified by: 12 September 2011 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 1854 times since it was created.

References
(Please note: only references with the binomials in the title are included. The information is from the Literature database.)

Lundgren, P., Bauer, K., Lugomela, C., Söderbäck, E. & Bergman, B. (2003). Reevaluation of the nitrogen fixation behaviour in the marine non-heterocystous cyanobacterium Lyngbya majuscula. Journal of Phycology 39: 310-314.
Osborne, N.J.T., Webb, P.M. & Shaw, G.R. (2001). The toxins of Lyngbya majuscula and their human and ecological health effects. Env. Int. 27: 381-392.

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 23 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:35879