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Spirulina major Kützing ex Gomont, 1892 
AphiaID: 177600

Classification: Biota > Bacteria (Kingdom) > Gracilicutes (Subkingdom) > Cyanobacteria (Phylum) > Cyanophyceae (Class) > Synechococcophycideae (Subclass) > Pseudanabaenales (Order) > Pseudanabaenaceae (Family) > Spirulinoideae (Subfamily) > Spirulina (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Spirulina Turpin ex Gomont, 1892
Synonymised
taxa
  Arthrospira major (Kützing) Crow, 1927 (synonym)
Sources  basis of record: 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: Algaebase, available online at http://www.algaebase.org [details]

basis of record (from synonym): Silva, C., P. Basson & R. Moe (1996). Catalogue of the Benthic Marine Algae of the Indian Ocean. Volume 79 of University of California Publications in Botany (ISBN 0-520-09810-2). [details] [view taxon]

Distribution Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links Published in AlgaeBase Logo AlgaeBase
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (87 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:177600
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-07-26 12:01:18Z  created  Espinel, Nadjejda
2012-10-23 12:06:30Z  checked  Guiry, Michael D.
  
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  Citation: Guiry, Michael D. (2013). Spirulina major Kützing ex Gomont, 1892. 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=177600 on 2013-06-19
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