Linné is a small lunar impact crater located in the western Mare Serenitatis.

In 1824 Wilhelm Lohrmann (1786-1840) of Dresden had drawn Linné as an 8 km diameter crater in his acclaimed lunar atlas, and in 1837 Wilhelm Beer and Johann Heinrich Mädler had described Linne in Der Mond as a 10 km crater.

[3] In 1866, the experienced lunar observer and mapmaker Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt made the surprising claim that Linné had changed its appearance.

In conditions of poor visibility this feature can appear to vanish from sight [4] (see also transient lunar phenomenon).

By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Linné.