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

Aphanocapsa C.Nägeli, 1849

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Aphanocapsa biformis A.Braun, 1879
Aphanocapsa conferta (West & G.S.West) Komárková-Legnerová & Cronberg, 1994
Aphanocapsa delicatissima West & G.S.West, 1912
Aphanocapsa elachista West & G.S.West, 1894
Aphanocapsa fuscolutea Hansgirg, 1893
Aphanocapsa grevillei (Berkeley) Rabenhorst, 1865
Aphanocapsa holsatica (Lemmermann) G.Cronberg & Komárek, 1994
Aphanocapsa incerta (Lemmermann) G.Cronberg & Komárek, 1994
Aphanocapsa litoralis Hansgirg, 1892
Aphanocapsa marina Hansgirg, 1890
Aphanocapsa muscicola (Meneghini) Wille, 1919
Aphanocapsa parasitica (Kützing) Komárek & Anagnostidis, 1995
Aphanocapsa parietina Nägeli, 1849
Aphanocapsa planctonica (G.M.Smith) Komárek & Anagnostidis, 1995
Aphanocapsa raspaigellae (Hauck) Frémy, 1933
Aphanocapsa reinboldii (Richter) Komárek & Anagnostidis, 1995
Aphanocapsa rivularis (Carmichael) Rabenhorst, 1865
Aphanocapsa salina Woronichin [Voronichin], 1929
Aphanocapsa sesciacensis Frémy, 1928
Aphanocapsa stagnalis (Lemmermann) Beljakova, 2004
Aphanocapsa thermalis Brügger, 1863

Literature

original description	Nageli, C. (1849). Gattungen einzelliger Algen, physiologisch und systematisch bearbeitet. Neue Denkschr. Allg. Schweiz. Ges. Gesammten Naturwiss. 10: 1-139.
basis of record	Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. searched on YYYY-MM-DD.
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.

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). Aphanocapsa C.Nägeli, 1849. 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:146562