WoRMS taxon details
Chlorella vulgaris Beijerinck, 1890
532029 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:532029)
accepted
Species
Chlorella candida Shihira & R.W.Krauss, 1965 · unaccepted (synonym)
Chlorella communis Artari, 1906 · unaccepted (synonym)
Chlorella pyrenoidosa var. duplex (Kützing) West · unaccepted (synonym)
Chlorella terricola Gollerbach [Hollerbach], 1936 · unaccepted (synonym)
Chlorella vulgaris var. viridis Chodat, 1913 · unaccepted (synonym)
Pleurococcus beijerinckii Artari, 1892 · unaccepted (synonym)
- Forma Chlorella vulgaris f. globosa V.M.Andreyeva, 1975
- Forma Chlorella vulgaris f. minuscula V.M.Andreyeva, 1975
- Forma Chlorella vulgaris f. suboblonga V.M.Andreeva, 1975
- Variety Chlorella vulgaris var. autotrophica (Shihira & Krauss) Fott & Nováková, 1969
- Variety Chlorella vulgaris var. tertia Fott & Novakova
- Variety Chlorella vulgaris var. ultrasquamata Clemençon & Fott
- Variety Chlorella vulgaris var. luteoviridis (Chodat) Shihira & R.W.Krauss, 1965 accepted as Jaagichlorella luteoviridis (Chodat) Darienko & Pröschold, 2019
- Variety Chlorella vulgaris var. viridis Chodat, 1913 accepted as Chlorella vulgaris Beijerinck, 1890 (synonym)
Beijerinck, M. W. (1890). Culturversuche mit Zoochlorellen, Lichenengonidien und anderen niederen Alge. <em>Botanische Zeitung.</em> 47: 725-739, 741-754, 757-768, 781-785. [details] 
LSID urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:56933
LSID urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:56933 [details]
Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway (taxonomic information republished from AlgaeBase with permission of M.D. Guiry). Chlorella vulgaris Beijerinck, 1890. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=532029 on 2025-09-17
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Nomenclature
original description
Beijerinck, M. W. (1890). Culturversuche mit Zoochlorellen, Lichenengonidien und anderen niederen Alge. <em>Botanische Zeitung.</em> 47: 725-739, 741-754, 757-768, 781-785. [details]
original description (of Pleurococcus beijerinckii Artari, 1892) Artari, A. (1892). Untersuchungen über Entwicklung und Systematik einiger Protococcoideen. <em>Bulletin de la Société impériale des naturalistes de Moscou.</em> Série 2 6: 222-262. [details]
basis of record Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. <em>World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway.</em> searched on YYYY-MM-DD., available online at http://www.algaebase.org [details]
original description (of Pleurococcus beijerinckii Artari, 1892) Artari, A. (1892). Untersuchungen über Entwicklung und Systematik einiger Protococcoideen. <em>Bulletin de la Société impériale des naturalistes de Moscou.</em> Série 2 6: 222-262. [details]
basis of record Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. <em>World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway.</em> searched on YYYY-MM-DD., available online at http://www.algaebase.org [details]
Other
context source (RAS)
Australian Antarctic Data Centre. , available online at https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/biodiversity/ [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
LSID urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:56933 [details]
Published in AlgaeBase 
Published in AlgaeBase (from synonym Chlorella terricola Gollerbach [Hollerbach], 1936)
Published in AlgaeBase (from synonym Chlorella candida Shihira & R.W.Krauss, 1965)
Published in AlgaeBase (from synonym Chlorella communis Artari, 1906)
Published in AlgaeBase (from synonym Pleurococcus beijerinckii Artari, 1892)
Published in AlgaeBase (from synonym Chlorella vulgaris var. viridis Chodat, 1913)
Published in AlgaeBase (from synonym Chlorella pyrenoidosa var. duplex (Kützing) West)
To Barcode of Life (10 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (232 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Chlorella vulgaris)
To GenBank (9688 nucleotides; 12482 proteins)
To GenBank (9688 nucleotides; 12482 proteins) (from synonym Chlorella vulgaris var. viridis Chodat, 1913)
To PESI
To ITIS
Published in AlgaeBase
(from synonym Chlorella terricola Gollerbach [Hollerbach], 1936)Published in AlgaeBase
(from synonym Chlorella candida Shihira & R.W.Krauss, 1965)Published in AlgaeBase
(from synonym Chlorella communis Artari, 1906)Published in AlgaeBase
(from synonym Pleurococcus beijerinckii Artari, 1892)Published in AlgaeBase
(from synonym Chlorella vulgaris var. viridis Chodat, 1913)Published in AlgaeBase
(from synonym Chlorella pyrenoidosa var. duplex (Kützing) West)To Barcode of Life (10 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (232 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Chlorella vulgaris)
To GenBank (9688 nucleotides; 12482 proteins)
To GenBank (9688 nucleotides; 12482 proteins) (from synonym Chlorella vulgaris var. viridis Chodat, 1913)
To PESI
To ITIS
