Microcystis grevillei (Berkeley) Elenkin 1936

Publication Details
Microcystis grevillei (Berkeley) Elenkin 1936: 334

Published in: Elenkin, A.A. (1936). Sinezeleniye vodorosli SSSR. Monografiya presnovodnykh i nazemnykh S'yanofiseaye, obnaruzhennykh v predelakh SSSR. Obshchaya chast' [Blue-green algae of the USSR. Monograph of freshwater and terrestrial Syanofiseae found within the USSR. A common part]. pp. [1]-679, 91 figs. Moscow & Leningrad: Izdatel'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR. [in Russian]

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Publication date: May 1936

Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Microcystis is Microcystis aeruginosa (Kützing) Kützing.

Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Aphanocapsa grevillei (Berkeley) Rabenhorst.

Source of Synonymy
Whitton, B.A. (2002). Phylum Cyanophyta (Cyanobacteria). In: The Freshwater Algal Flora of the British Isles. An identification guide to freshwater and terrestrial algae. (John, D.M., Whitton, B.A. & Brook, A.J. Eds), pp. 25-122. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Basionym
Palmella grevillei Berkeley

General Environment
This is a freshwater species.

Created: 11 July 2002 by Elizabeth Moran.

Last updated: 30 March 2022

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Taxonomic note
At INA it appears also Microcystis grevillei (grevillii) (C. Agardh) Kützing 1833. Linnaea 8: 372, with Basionym Haematococcus grevillei C. Agardh 1829. - (24 April 2025) - Salvador Valenzuela Miranda

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E.A. Molinari Novoa in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 30 March 2022. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 12 June 2025

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