Higher Classification: > Kingdom Plantae > Subkingdom Viridiplantae > Division Chlorophyta > Subdivision Chlorophytina > Class Chlorophyceae > Order Chlamydomonadales > Family Chlamydomonadaceae

Microglena Ehrenberg, 1832

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Microglena braunii (Goroschankin) Demchenko, Mikhailyuk & Proschold, 2012
Microglena reginae (Ettl & J.C. Green) Demchenko, Mikhailyuk & Proschold, 2012

Literature

original description	Ehrenberg, C.G. (1832). Über die Entwickelung und Lebensdauer der Infusionsthiere; nebst ferneren Beiträgen zu einer Vergleichung ihrer organischen Systeme. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Physikalische Klasse. 1831: 1-154.
basis of record	Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. searched on YYYY-MM-DD.
taxonomy source	Demchenko, E.; Mikhailyuk, T.; Coleman, A. W.; Pröschold, T. (2012). Generic and species concepts in Microglena (previously the Chlamydomonas monadina group) revised using an integrative approach. European Journal of Phycology. 47(3): 264-290.

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). Microglena Ehrenberg, 1832. 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:577490