Lyngbya sordida Gomont 1892

Current name: Lyngbya sordida Gomont
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Publication Details
Lyngbya sordida Gomont 1892: 126, pl. II: fig. 21

Published in: Gomont, M. (1892 '1893'). Monographie des Oscillariées (Nostocacées Homocystées). Deuxième partie. - Lyngbyées. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Série 7 16: 91-264, pls 1-7.

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Publication date: 1 January 1892

Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Lyngbya is Lyngbya confervoides C.Agardh ex Gomont.

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

Type Information
Lectotype locality: Dalmatian coast, Croatia; (Silva & al. 1996: 39)

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 02 March 2001 by Sandy Lawson.

Last updated: 17 December 2014

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Nomenclatural note
Silva et al. (1996: 39) do not recognise later starting points in Cyanophyceae and consider L. sordida to be a superfluous name since Gomont included in its synonymy several earlier legitimate names such as Leibleinia polychroa and L. violacea. According to Silva et al. (1996: 40), Lyngbya sordida Gomont is a later homonym of L. sordida P. Crouan & H. Crouan (in Mazé & Schramm, 1878: 21), based on Leibleinia sordida Kützing (1845: 179), an illegitimate substitute name for Calothrix luteofusca C. Agardh (1927: 635). - (14 September 2010) - G.M. Guiry

Taxonomic notes
Silva et al. (1996: 39) cite this as synonym of Lyngbya polychroa (Meneghini) Rabenhorst but according to Engene et al. (2010:593), L. polychroa is a synonym of Lyngbya sordida Gomont ex Gomont. - (14 September 2010) - G.M. Guiry
Silva et al. (1996: 39) note that Drouet (1968:88) treated Lyngbya sordida Gomont as a nomenclatural synonym of Leibleinia capillaceae Kützing (1843b: 221), which he referred to Schizothrix mexicana Gomont. When establishing Lyngbya sordida, Gomont (1892: 152), however, listed Leibleinia capillaceae as a species inquirenda, so that the two names do not share the same type. - (15 September 2010) - G.M. Guiry

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 17 December 2014. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 28 May 2025