Neolyngbya tortuosa B.L.C.Ginn & N.Muangmai 2025
Publication Details
Neolyngbya tortuosa B.L.C.Ginn & N.Muangmai 2025: 169, figs 3-21
Published in: Ginn, B.L.C., Merican, F., Praiboon, J., Kaewsuralikhit, C., Maneekat S., Zuccarello, G.C. & Muangmai, N. (2025). Neolyngbya tortuosa sp. nov. (Oscillatoriales, Micocoleaceae): a new corticolous cyanobacterium from a tropical mangrove environment in Phuket, west coast of Thailand. Phycologia 64(2): 163–173, 21 figures, 1 table.
Publication date: "Version of Record 12-05- 2025"
Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Neolyngbya is Neolyngbya maris-brasiliensis Caires, Sant'Anna & J.M.C.Nunes.
Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Type Information
Type locality: Pa Khlok Bay, Phuket, Thailand (08°2.18'N, 98°24.9E); (Ginn & al. 2025: 169) Holotype: attached to the bark surface of a cut-down tree from the intertidal mangrove environment; THNHM; THNHM-p-2024-0071 (Ginn & al. 2025: 169, fig. 5)
Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), bent or twisted in different directions, involved, complicated (Stearn 1983).
General Environment
This is a freshwater species.
Created: 09 June 2025 by G.M. Guiry.
Last updated: 20 June 2025
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G.M. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 20 June 2025. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 24 June 2025
