Navicula lyra Ehrenberg 1841

Current name: Lyrella lyra (Ehrenberg) Karayeva
Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA; Point White, 400x, DIC - 05 July 2009. Karl Bruun (skogenman@earthlink.net)

Publication Details
Navicula lyra Ehrenberg 1841: 203

Published in: Ehrenberg, C.G. (1841). Nachtrag zu dem Vortrage über Verbreitung und Einflufs des mikroskopischen Lebens in Süd-und Nord-Amerika. Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlich-Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1841: 202-209.

Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Navicula is Navicula tripunctata (O.F.Müller) Bory.

Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Lyrella lyra (Ehrenberg) Karayeva.

Source of Synonymy
Karayeva, N.I. (1978). New genus of the family Naviculaceae West. Botanicheskii Zhurnal 63(11): 1593-1596.

Type Information
Type locality: "Fauklands Inseln" [Falkland Islands]; (Ehrenberg 1843: 419 (131)) Lectotype (designated by R. Jahn & al., 2004: 125, fig. 3): BHUPM; Ehrenberg collection: specimen on preparation 170407 b w (Jahn & al. 2004: 125)

General Environment
This is a brackish species.

Created: 23 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 31 March 2025

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Nomenclatural note
1841: 419, pl. I: fig 1.9a. 1843 (INA). - (09 November 2016) - G.M. Guiry

Taxonomic note
Handey (1974: 290) records this species as a currently accepted name. Day et al. (1995: 38) record Navicula lyra f. typica H.Perag. & Perag. as being a currently accepted name. - (11 May 2006) - G.M. Guiry

Habitat note
Also living in marine water - (22 December 2011) - Salvador Valenzuela Miranda

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 31 March 2025. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 06 April 2025