Microcystis muscicola (Meneghini) Elenkin 1936

Publication Details
Microcystis muscicola (Meneghini) Elenkin 1936: 331

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 muscicola (Meneghini) Wille.

Source of Synonymy
Komárek, J. & Anagnostidis, K. (1999 '1998'). Cyanoprokaryota. 1. Chroococcales. In: Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa. Begründet von A. Pascher. Band 19/1. (Ettl, H., Gärtner, G., Heynig, H. & Mollenhauer, D. Eds), pp. 1-548. Heidelberg & Berlin: Spektrum, Akademischer Verlag.

Basionym
Coccochloris muscicola Meneghini

Type Information
Type locality: Italy: Venice ("ad muscos in udis Euganeorum"); (INA 1996) Type: Kützing; IT; UC790484 (INA 1996)

Created: 09 July 2002 by Elizabeth Moran.

Last updated: 29 March 2022

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E.A. Molinari Novoa in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 29 March 2022. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 18 May 2025

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