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Lyngbya
Sign in to saveLyngbya is a genus of cyanobacteria, unicellular autotrophs that form the basis of the oceanic food chain.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomBacteria
- PhylumCyanobacteria
- ClassCyanobacteriia
- OrderCyanobacteriales
- FamilyMicrocoleaceae
Habitatmarine, brackish, freshwater
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,326
- With media
- 469
- Family
- Microcoleaceae
- Collections
- FC-UNAM, CCBA-FMVZ-UADY, INECOL
- Recorded in
- Mexico
Research
830 papers- Seaweed (Lyngbya majuscula) dermatitis.Clinics in dermatology · 1987
- Aquatic Antagonists: Seaweed Dermatitis (Lyngbya majuscula).Cutis · 2024
- Recent progression on phytochemicals and pharmacological properties of the filamentous cyanobacterium Lyngbya sp.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2023
- The toxins of Lyngbya majuscula and their human and ecological health effects.Environment international · 2001
- Bioinspired biomolecules: Mycosporine-like amino acids and scytonemin from Lyngbya sp. with UV-protection potentialities.Journal of photochemistry and photobiology. B, Biology · 2019
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Oscillatoriaceae
- Image
- Lyngbya.jpg
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- LPSN URL
- lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/lyngbya
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Lyngbya
- Commons category
- Lyngbya
- Gram staining
- gram-negative bacteria
- taxon common name
- リングビア属
- taxon author citation
- C.Agardh ex Gomont, 1892
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Lyngbya is a genus of cyanobacteria, unicellular autotrophs that form the basis of the oceanic food chain.
As a result of recent genetic analyses, several new genera were erected from this genus: e.g., Moorea, Limnoraphis, Okeania, Microseira, and Dapis.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lyngbya” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.