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Lyngbya (Cyanophyceae)

 

Lyngbya sp.
Modified from image by Jason Oyadomari, Michigan Technical University MI USA

 

 

Lyngbya sp.
Modified from an image by Entwisle et al.
Posted at rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au

 

 

Lyngbya sp.
Modified from an image by Entwisle et al.
Posted at rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au

 

 

Lyngbya sp.
Modified from image by Jason Oyadomari, Michigan Technical University MI USA

 

 

Lyngbya sp. from Algae of Zheltokamensky quarry, Russia
Photograph by Sergii Iarovyi posted online
Debatable - Is that a false branch on lower filament? If so it is rare in genus Lyngbya.

 

 

Lyngbya wollei = Microseira G. B. McGregor and B. C. Sendall gen. nov.
Photograph by McGregor and Sendall, accepted for publication (J. Phycol. 2014).

 

 

Nostoc sp. from Baja California, Mexico
Photograph by Vojtěch Dostál posted online

 

 

Lyngbya ucrainica (a.k.a. Heteroleibleinia ucrainica)
Photograph by Bitonytė and Kasperovičienė posted online

Bitonytė, I. and J Kasperovičienė  2015.  Phytobenthos cyanobacteria species new to Lithuanian rivers.  Botanica Lithuanica 21(2):99-118.

 

 

Lyngbya cf. pusilla from Lake Attitash, MA USA  8 Sep. 2016
Identified by Phycology group at UNH (PBIO 995)

 

 

Lyngbya robusta from Lake Atitlán, Guatemala
Renamed Limnoraphis robusta by Komarek et al. (2013) based on 16S rRNA gene sequence.

Komárek, J., Zapomělová, E, Šmarda, J., Kopecký,J., Rejmánková,E., Woodhouse, J.6, Brett Neilan, B.A. and Jaroslava Komárková,J.  2013.  Polyphasic evaluation of Limnoraphis robusta, a water–bloom forming cyanobacterium from Lake Atitlán, Guatemala, with a description of Limnoraphis gen. nov.  Fottea, Olomouc, 13(1): 39–52, 2013

 

 

Lyngbya borneti Zukal
Sketch by Hirano (1979) posted online

Hirano, M.  1979.  Freshwater algae from Yukidori Zawa, near Syowa Station, Antarctica.  National Institute of Polar Research Memoirs, Tokyo.  No. 11: Special Issue. pp 1-25.

 

 

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