Higher Classification: > Kingdom Bacteria > Subkingdom Negibacteria > Phylum Cyanobacteria > Class Cyanophyceae > Subclass Nostocophycidae > Order Nostocales > Family Nodulariaceae > Genus Nodularia

Nodularia spumigena Mertens ex Bornet & Flahault, 1888

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Nodularia*	Mertens ex Bornet & Flahault, 1886	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Swedish: katthårsblom

Literature

original description	Bornet, É.; Flahault, C (1886 '1888'). Revision des Nostocacées hétérocystées contenues dans les principaux herbiers de France (quatrième et dernier fragment). Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Septième Série, 7: 177-262.
basis of record	TMAP - Trilateral Monitoring and Assessment Program database
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	Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. searched on YYYY-MM-DD.
additional source	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.
toxicology source	McGregor, G. B.; Stewart, I.; Sendall, B. C.; Sadler, R.; Reardon, K.; Carter, S.; Wruck, D.; Wickramasinghe, W. (2012). First Report of a Toxic Nodularia spumigena (Nostocales/ Cyanobacteria) Bloom in Sub-Tropical Australia. I. Phycological and Public Health Investigations. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 9(7): 2396-2411.

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). Nodularia spumigena Mertens ex Bornet & Flahault, 1888. 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:160566