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

Microcystis Lemmermann, 1907

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Clathrocystis*	Henfrey, 1856	synonym
*Micraloa*	Biasoletto, 1832	synonym
*Polycystis*	(Kützing) Kützing, 1849	synonym

Children

Microcystis aeruginosa (Kützing) Kützing, 1846
Microcystis firma (Kützing) Schmidle, 1902
Microcystis flos-aquae (Wittrock) Kirchner, 1898
Microcystis ichthyoblabe (G.Kunze) Kützing, 1843
Microcystis marginata (Meneghini) Kützing, 1846
Microcystis novacekii (Komárek) Compère, 1974
Microcystis panniformis Komárek, Komárková-Legnerová, Sant'Anna, M.T.P.Azevedo & P.A.C.Senna, 2002
Microcystis pulverea (H.C.Wood) Forti, 1907
Microcystis scripta (P.Richter) Lemmermann, 1903
Microcystis smithii Komárek & Anagnostidis, 1995
Microcystis viridis (A.Braun) Lemmermann, 1903
Microcystis wesenbergii (Komárek) Komárek ex Komárek, 2006

Literature

original description	Lemmermann, E. (1907). Cryptogamenfl. Mark Brandenb. 3/1: 45.
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	Hällfors, G. (2004). Checklist of Baltic Sea Phytoplankton Species (including some heterotrophic protistan groups). Baltic Sea Environment Proceedings. No. 95: 210 pp.
additional source	CyanoDB
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	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

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). Microcystis Lemmermann, 1907. 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:146557