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You may search for the genus name, the genus name authority or for the genera included in a family. The first three letters (e.g. "Rho" or "rho" for Rhodymenia) will often suffice.

 
Currently in AlgaeBase:
180,739 species and infraspecific names, 23,903 images, 74,470 bibliographic items and 596,926 distributional records.

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Species

Haslea berepwari Mouget, Gastineau & Jauffrais

Coelastrella polaris E.Krivina, M.Sinetova, O.Anissimova & A.Temraleeva

Sungminbooa tropica Wetherbee

Sungminbooa capricornica Wetherbee

Eutetramorus lundii Bourrelly

Genera

Mucopeyssonnelia D.L.Ballantine & H.Ruiz, 2025

Revolvomonas Wetherbee, 2025

Sollittiana E.M.Nelson, 1910, nom. inval.

Chroolepusella Gaillon, 1833, nom. illeg.

Luticula Qiufeng Yan, Huan Zhu & Guoxiang Liu, 2025

Higher Taxa

Tribe: Orthopithonelleae (Gilbert & Clark) Keupp & Versteegh 1989

Family: Fluvioralfsiaceae A.Mellado-Díaz, J.L.Moreno & G.W.Saunders 2025

Family: Halteriidae Claparède & J.Lachmann 1858

Subclass: Halteriia Petz & W.Foissner 1992

Order: Halteriida Petz & W.Foissner 1992

Bibliography

Ferdinand Cohn, a founder of modern microbiology (1999)

Beiträge zur Physiologie der Phycochromaceen und Florideen (1867)

Validation List no. 223. Valid publication of new names and new combinations effectively published outside the IJSEM (2025)

Une nouvelle espèce de Lagenoeca: L. Pacaudii nov. sp (1955)

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How to Import Species Download in Excel

When you download a list of species from AlgaeBase, the data is supplied in CSV format with a ".txt" file extension, which will usually open in Notepad on Windows PCs and laptops.

Due to a persistent Microsoft bug, opening this file directly in Excel will cause problems with diacritical marks, e.g. "Kützing" becomes "Kützing".

To use this file in Excel, you should use the Import feature:

  • Create a new blank workbook
  • Click the "Data" tab
  • Click "From Text/CSV"
  • Select the downloaded file, which should be in your "Downloads" folder and will be called "species_download.txt"
  • Click "Import"
  • In the resulting dialog, make sure that "File Origin" is set to "65001: Unicode (UTF-8)" and "Delimiter" is set to "Comma"
  • Click "Load"