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

Microcystis wesenbergii (Komárek) Komárek ex Komárek, 2006

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Microcystis*	Lemmermann, 1907	accepted genus name
*Clathrocystis*	Henfrey, 1856	synonym
*Micraloa*	Biasoletto, 1832	synonym
*Polycystis*	(Kützing) Kützing, 1849	synonym

Species group names

*Diplocystis wesenbergii*	Komárek, 1958	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Swedish: ärgvattenblom

Literature

original description	Komárek, J. (1958). Die taxonomische Revision der planktischen Blaualgen der Tschekoslowakei. In: Komárek, J. & Ettl, H. Algologische Studien, pp. 10-206, Verlag der Tscheslovakischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Prag.
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	Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. searched on YYYY-MM-DD.
ecology source	Starmach, K. (1995). Freshwater algae of the Thala Hills oasis (Enderby Land, East Antarctic). Polish Polar Research. 16(3/4): 113-148.

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). Microcystis wesenbergii (Komárek) Komárek ex Komárek, 2006. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=146561