Higher Classification: > Kingdom Bacteria > Subkingdom Negibacteria > Phylum Cyanobacteria > Class Cyanophyceae > Subclass Oscillatoriophycidae > Order Spirulinales > Family Spirulinaceae > Genus Spirulina

Spirulina subtilissima Kützing ex Gomont, 1892

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Spirulina*	Turpin ex Gomont, 1892	accepted genus name

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	Coppejans, E. (1998). Flora van de Noord-Franse en Belgische zeewieren [Marine algae of northern France and Belgium]. Nationale Plantentuin van België: Meise, Belgium. ISBN 90-72619-41-2. 462 pp.
additional source	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	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
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	León-Tejera, H., M. Gold-Morgan, and G. Montejano. 2009. Benthic Cyanoprokaryota (Cyanobacteria) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 47–56 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Stati

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). Spirulina subtilissima Kützing ex Gomont, 1892. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=146667