Higher Classification: > Kingdom Bacteria > Subkingdom Gracilicutes > Phylum Cyanobacteria > Class Cyanophyceae > Subclass Oscillatoriophycideae > Order Chroococcales > Family Microcystaceae > Genus Microcystis

Microcystis flos-aquae (Wittrock in Wittrock & Nordstedt) Kirchner, 1898

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Microcystis*	Lemmermann, 1907	accepted genus name
*Polycystis*	(Kützing) Kützing, 1849	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Louis, A.; Petes, J. (1979). Fluctuations écologiques et algologiques dans les estuaires belges (Oostende, Blankenberge et Nieuwpoort): 1. Données de base [Ecological and algological fluctuations in the Belgian estuaries (Oostende, Blankenberge and Nieuwpoort): 1. Basic data]. Studia Algologica Lovaniensia, 7. Story-Scientia: Louvain, Belgium. XXXVI, 355 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	Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013].

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

Biodiversity Heritage Library (36 publications)
GenBank (11 nucleotides; 13 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

Guiry, Michael D. (2014). Microcystis flos-aquae (Wittrock in Wittrock & Nordstedt) Kirchner, 1898. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:146560