Higher Classification: > Kingdom Bacteria > Subkingdom Negibacteria > Phylum Cyanobacteria > Class Cyanophyceae > Subclass Oscillatoriophycidae > Order Spirulinales > Family Spirulinaceae

Spirulina Turpin ex Gomont, 1892

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Spirulina caldaria Tilden, 1898
Spirulina corakiana Playfair, 1914
Spirulina labyrinthiformis Gomont, 1892
Spirulina major Kützing ex Gomont, 1892
Spirulina meneghiniana Zanardini ex Gomont, 1892
Spirulina princeps West & G.S.West, 1902
Spirulina robusta H.Welsh, 1965
Spirulina subsalsa Oersted ex Gomont, 1892
Spirulina subtilissima Kützing ex Gomont, 1892
Spirulina tenerrima Kützing ex Gomont, 1892
Spirulina versicolor Cohn ex Gomont, 1892

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ラセンモ属

Literature

original description	Gomont, M. (1892 (1893)). Monographie des Oscillariées (Nostocacées Homocystées). Deuxième partie. - Lyngbyées. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique. 7(16): 91-264.
basis of record	Silva, P. C.; Basson, P. W.; Moe, R. L. (1996). Catalogue of the benthic marine algae of the Indian Ocean. University of California Publications in Botany. 79: 1-1259.
additional source	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
additional source	Hällfors, G. (2004). Checklist of Baltic Sea Phytoplankton Species (including some heterotrophic protistan groups). Baltic Sea Environment Proceedings. No. 95: 210 pp.
additional source	Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. searched on YYYY-MM-DD.

Genbank

Taxonomy

Published in AlgaeBase

Citation

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). Spirulina Turpin ex Gomont, 1892. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:146541