WoRMS taxon details
Microcystis aeruginosa (Kützing) Kützing, 1846
AphiaID: 146558
AphiaID: 146558
| Classification: Biota > Bacteria (Kingdom) > Gracilicutes (Subkingdom) > Cyanobacteria (Phylum) > Cyanophyceae (Class) > Oscillatoriophycideae (Subclass) > Chroococcales (Order) > Microcystaceae (Family) > Microcystis (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Microcystis Lemmermann, 1907 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Clathrocystis aeruginosa (Kützing) Henfrey, 1856 (Synonym) Clathrocystis aeruginosa var. major (synonym) Diplocystis aeruginosa (Kützing) Trevisan, 1848 Micraloa aeruginosa Kützing, 1833 (Basionym) Microcystis aeruginosa f. aeruginosa Kützing (synonym) Polycystis aeruginosa (Kützing) Kützing, 1846 (Synonym) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Algaebase, available online at http://www.algaebase.org [details] additional source: Hällfors, G. (2004). Checklist of Baltic Sea Phytoplankton Species (including some heterotrophic protistan groups). Baltic Sea Environment Proceedings No. 95: 210 pp., available online at http://www.helcom.fi/stc/files/Publications/Proceedings/bsep95.pdf [details] additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details] | ||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Forma Microcystis aeruginosa f. aeruginosa Kützing accepted as Microcystis aeruginosa (Kützing) Kützing, 1846 Forma Microcystis aeruginosa f. flos-aquae (Wittrock) Elenkin, 1938 accepted as  Forma Microcystis aeruginosa f. viridis (A.Braun) Elenkin, 1938 accepted as Microcystis viridis (A.Braun) Lemmermann, 1903 | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Nieuwpoort [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | PlanktonNet Image Published in AlgaeBase  To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (117 publications) To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (559 nucleotides; 45603 proteins) To PESI To ITIS | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:146558 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Guiry, Michael D. (2013). Microcystis aeruginosa (Kützing) Kützing, 1846. In: Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2013). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway (taxonomic information republished from AlgaeBase with permission of M.D. Guiry). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=146558 on 2013-05-19 | |||||||||||
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