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

Phormidium Kützing ex Gomont, 1892

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Phormidium ambiguum Gomont, 1892
Phormidium articulatum (N.L.Gardner) Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988
Phormidium boryanum (Gomont) Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988
Phormidium breve (Kützing ex Gomont) Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988
Phormidium chalybeum (Mertens ex Gomont) Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988
Phormidium corium Gomont ex Gomont, 1892
Phormidium diguetii (Gomont) Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988
Phormidium edessae Skuja, 1937
Phormidium endolithicum Ercegovic, 1932
Phormidium favosum Gomont, 1892
Phormidium feldmannii Frémy, 1937
Phormidium grunowianum (Gomont) Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988
Phormidium henningsii Lemmermann, 1907
Phormidium incrustatum Gomont ex Gomont, 1892
Phormidium interruptum Kützing ex Forti, 1907
Phormidium inundatum Kützing ex Gomont, 1892
Phormidium irriguum (Kützing ex Gomont) Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988
Phormidium janthiphorum (Gomont) Elenkin, 1949
Phormidium jenkelianum G.Schmid, 1914
Phormidium kuetzingianum (Kirchner ex Hansgirg) Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988
Phormidium lacustre (Cado) Anagnostidis, 2001
Phormidium litorale Golubic, 1960
Phormidium macedonicum Cado, 1959
Phormidium minutum Lindstedt, 1943
Phormidium molischii (Vouk) Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988
Phormidium nigroviride (Thwaites ex Gomont) Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988
Phormidium nigrum (Vaucher ex Gomont) Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988
Phormidium pachydermaticum Frémy, 1930
Phormidium papyraceum Gomont ex Gomont, 1892
Phormidium retzii Kützing ex Gomont, 1892
Phormidium subfuscum Kützing ex Gomont, 1892
Phormidium submembranaceum Kützng ex Gomont, 1892
Phormidium tanganyikae (G.S.West) Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988
Phormidium terebriforme (C.Agardh ex Gomont) Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988
Phormidium tergestinum (Rabenhorst ex Gomont) Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988
Phormidium thwaitesii I.Umezaki & M.Watanabe, 1994
Phormidium uncinatum Gomont ex Gomont, 1892
Phormidium willei (N.L.Gardner) Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988

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	Silva, P. C.; Basson, P. W.; Moe, R. L. (1996). Catalogue of the benthic marine algae of the Indian Ocean. University of California Publications in Botany. 79: 1-1259.
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	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). Phormidium 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:146690