Higher Classification: > Kingdom Bacteria > Subkingdom Negibacteria > Phylum Cyanobacteria > Class Cyanophyceae > Subclass Oscillatoriophycidae > Order Oscillatoriales > Family Oscillatoriaceae > Genus Oscillatoria

Oscillatoria tenuis C.Agardh ex Gomont, 1892

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Oscillatoria*	Vaucher ex Gomont, 1892	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Phormidium neotenue*	G.Hällfors, 2004	synonym

Literature

original description	Agardh, C. A. (1813). Algarum decas secunda [-quarta]. Lundæ :Litteris Berlingianis.
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	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	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.
source of synonymy	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

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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). Oscillatoria tenuis C.Agardh ex Gomont, 1892. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=146594