Higher Classification: > Kingdom Plantae > Subkingdom Viridiplantae > Division Chlorophyta > Subdivision Chlorophytina > Class Chlorophyceae > Order Chlamydomonadales > Family Chlamydomonadaceae

Chlamydomonas Ehrenberg, 1833

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

Protococcus C.Agardh, 1824 synonym

Children

Chlamydomonas coccoides Butcher, 1959
Chlamydomonas dinobryonis G.M.Smith, 1920
Chlamydomonas magnusii J.Reinke
Chlamydomonas marina F.J.Cohn, 1865
Chlamydomonas mikroplankton J.Reinke, 1898
Chlamydomonas pulsatilla H.W.Wollenweber, 1926
Chlamydomonas quadrilobata N.Carter, 1937

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Japanese: クラミドモナス属

Literature

original description

Ehrenberg, C.G. (1834). Dritter Beitrag zur Erkenntniss grosser Organisation in der Richtung des kleinsten Raumes. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. 1833: 145-336, pls I-XIII [1-11].

basis of record

Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.

additional source

Pröschold, T.; Marin, B.; Schlösser, U.W.; Melkonian, M. (2001). Molecular phylogeny and taxonomic revision of Chlamydomonas (Chlorophyta). I. Emendation of Chlamydomonas Ehrenberg and Chloromonas Gobi, and descripription of Oogamochlamys gen. nov. and Lobochlamys gen. nov. Protist. 152: 265-300.

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

Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].

Genbank

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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). Chlamydomonas Ehrenberg, 1833. 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:178583

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial

Importance

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Last modified

2010-08-11 by Michael D. Guiry

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