Higher Classification: > Kingdom Bacteria > Subkingdom Negibacteria > Phylum Cyanobacteria > Class Cyanophyceae > Subclass Oscillatoriophycidae > Order Oscillatoriales > Family Oscillatoriaceae

Oscillatoria Vaucher ex Gomont, 1892

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Oscillatoria anguina Bory ex Gomont, 1892
Oscillatoria annae Goor, 1918
Oscillatoria bonnemaisonii P.Crouan & H.Crouan ex Gomont, 1892
Oscillatoria corallinae Gomont, 1890
Oscillatoria crassa (C.B.Rao) Anagnostidis, 2001
Oscillatoria curviceps C.Agardh ex Gomont, 1892
Oscillatoria leptomitiformis Meneghini ex Gomont, 1892
Oscillatoria limosa C.Agardh ex Gomont, 1892
Oscillatoria margaritifera Kützing ex Gomont, 1892
Oscillatoria ornata Kützing ex Gomont, 1892
Oscillatoria planctonica Woloszynska, 1912
Oscillatoria princeps Vaucher ex Gomont, 1892
Oscillatoria proboscidea Gomont, 1892
Oscillatoria pseudoangusta Claus, 1955
Oscillatoria putrida Schmidle, 1901
Oscillatoria rhamphoidea Anagnostidis, 2001
Oscillatoria rupicola (Hansgirg) Hansgirg ex Forti, 1907
Oscillatoria sancta Kützing ex Gomont, 1892
Oscillatoria simplicissima Gomont, 1892
Oscillatoria subbrevis Schmidle, 1901
Oscillatoria tenuis C.Agardh ex Gomont, 1892
Oscillatoria trichoides Szafer, 1910

Literature

original description	Gomont, M. (1892 (1893)). Monographie des Oscillariées (Nostocacées Homocystées). Deuxième partie. - Lyngbyées. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique. 7(16): 91-264.
basis of record	Silva, P. C.; Basson, P. W.; Moe, R. L. (1996). Catalogue of the benthic marine algae of the Indian Ocean. University of California Publications in Botany. 79: 1-1259.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
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	Hällfors, G. (2004). Checklist of Baltic Sea Phytoplankton Species (including some heterotrophic protistan groups). Baltic Sea Environment Proceedings. No. 95: 210 pp.
ecology source	Kurt, O.; Ulcay, S.; Taskin, E.; Ozturk, M. (2010). Taxonomy and Description of the Three Marine Cyanophycean Algae from the Mediterranean Sea. Turkish Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 10(1): 33-37.

Genbank

Taxonomy

Published in AlgaeBase

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). Oscillatoria Vaucher ex Gomont, 1892. 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:146549