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

Spirulina tenerrima Kützing ex Gomont, 1892

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Spirulina*	Turpin ex Gomont, 1892	accepted genus name

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	Coppejans, E.; Kling, R. (1995). Flore algologique des côtes du Nord de la France et de la Belgique [Algal flora of the northern French and the Belgian coast]. Jardin Botanique National de Belgique: Meise, Belgium. ISBN 90-72619-16-1. 454 pp.
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 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.
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.

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 tenerrima Kützing 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:146668