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

Microcoleus chtonoplastes (Mertens) Zanardini

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Microcoleus*	Desmazières ex Gomont, 1892	accepted genus name

Literature

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	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
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