Polycystis (Kützing) Kützing, 1849, nom. illeg.

Lectotype species: Polycystis aeruginosa (Kützing) Kützing

Publication details: (Kützing) Kützing, 1849: 210

Currently accepted name for the type species: Microcystis aeruginosa (Kützing) Kützing

Original publication: Kützing, F.T. (1849). Species algarum. pp. [i]-vi, [1]-922. Lipsiae [Leipzig]: F.A. Brockhaus.

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Type designated in: Drouet, F. & Daily, W.A. (1956). Revision of the coccoid Myxophyceae. Butler University Botanical Studies 12(1): 1-218, 377 figures.

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The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2024-06-12 by E.A. Molinari Novoa.

Taxonomic status: This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Microcystis.

Gender: This genus name is currently treated as feminine.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: 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.

Nomenclatural note
Illegitimate: later homonym of Polycystis Léveillé, 1846 (Urocystidaceae, Basidiomycota). - (19 July 2011) - M.D. Guiry

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