| Name | Author | Source | Citation | Year |
|---|
| Carpacanthus microcystus_(`microcystis') | (J. Agardh) G. Martens | Die Preussische Expedition nach Ost-Asien. Nach amtlichen Quellen. Botanischer Theil: | 28 | 1868 |
| Cystophora polycystidea var. microcystis | Sonder | image |
| Dangemannia microcystis | T. Friedl & C.J. O'Kelly | Eur. J. Phycol. | 37: 382 | 2002 |
| EUMICROCYSTIS | A.A. Elenkin | image |
| Leiosphaeridia microcystis | (Eisenack) Eisenack | image |
| MICROCYSTIS | (Kützing) Elenkin | image |
| MICROCYSTIS | (Kützing) Kirchner | image |
| MICROCYSTIS | E. Lemmermann | image |
| MICROCYSTIS | Kützing | image |
| MICROCYSTIS | Meneghini | image |
| MICROCYSTIS sect. | MICROCYSTIS (Kützing) Kirchner | image |
| MICROCYSTIS | | image |
| MICROCYSTIS | | image |
| Microcystis adnata | (L.) Meneghini | image |
| Microcystis aeruginosa | (Kützing) Kützing | image |
| Microcystis aeruginosa f. major | Arnoldi & Aleksenko | image |
| Microcystis aeruginosa f. minor | Elenkin | image |
| Microcystis aeruginosa f. occidentalis | W.R. Taylor | image |
| Microcystis aeruginosa var. elongata | C.B. Rao | image |
| Microcystis aeruginosa var. major | (Wittrock) G.M. Smith | image |
| Microcystis aeruginosa var. minor | Colditz | image |
| Microcystis affinis | Meneghini | image |
| Microcystis amethystina | (Filarszky) Forti | image |
| Microcystis amethystina var. vinea | Printz | image |
| Microcystis angulata | M.D. Zalessky | image |
| Microcystis angulosa | (Corda) Kützing | image |
| Microcystis anodontae | (Hansgirg) Elenkin | image |
| Microcystis aphanothecoides f. minor | Hortobagyi | image |
| Microcystis aphanothecoides | Zalessky | image |
| Microcystis argentea | Schiller | image |
| Microcystis atra | Kützing | image |
| Microcystis atrovirens | (Corda) Kützing | Linnaea | 8: 374 | 1833 |
| Microcystis atrovirens | (Corda) Kützing | image |
| Microcystis austriaca | Kützing | image |
| Microcystis bengalensis | Banerji | image |
| Microcystis biformis | (A. Braun) Bourrelly | Alg. Eau Douce | 3: expl. pl. 82 | 1970 |
| Microcystis botrys | Teiling | image |
| Microcystis botrys var. rosea | Kufferath | image |
| Microcystis brasiliensis | (M.T.P. Azevedo & C.L. Sant'Anna) Rigonato et al. | Hydrobiologia | 811: 46 | 2017 |
| Microcystis brebissonii | Meneghini | image |
| Microcystis brunnea | (Naegeli) J. Stein & Borden | image |
| Microcystis bullosa | (Kützing) Meneghini | image |
| Microcystis caerulea | G. Dickie | image |
| Microcystis calciphila | Schwabe | image |
| Microcystis chroococcoidea var. minor | Nygaard | image |
| Microcystis chroococcoidea | West & West | image |
| Microcystis cinnabarina | Flotow | image |
| Microcystis clarionensis | (Setchell & Gardner) G. De Toni | image |
| Microcystis comperei | J. Komárek | Acta Bot. Cubana | 19: 6, fig. 4 | 1984 |
| Microcystis complanata | Skuja | image |
| Microcystis concharum | (Hansgirg) P.C. Silva in Silva, Basson, & Moe | Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. | 79: 28 | 1996 |
| Microcystis coracina | Trevisan | image |
| Microcystis delicatissima | (W. West & G.S. West) J. Stein | image |
| Microcystis densa | G.S. West | image |
| Microcystis densa | Schiller | image |
| Microcystis deusta | (Meneghini) Meneghini | Monogr. Nostoch. Ital.: | 81 | 1842 |
| Microcystis dimidiata | (Kützing) P.C. Silva in Silva, Basson, & Moe | Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. | 79: 29 | 1996 |
| Microcystis dimidiata | (Kützing) P.C. Silva | image |
| Microcystis donnellii | Wolle | image |
| Microcystis elabens | (Brebisson) Kützing | image |
| Microcystis elabens f. intermedia | Laloraya & Mitra | image |
| Microcystis elabens var. major | Bachmann | image |
| Microcystis elabens var. minor | Nygaard | image |
| Microcystis elabentioides | M.D. Zalessky | image |
| Microcystis elachista | (W. West & G.S. West) Compère | Bull. Jard. Bot. Natl. Belgique | 37: 141, 245 | 1967 |
| Microcystis elachista | (W. West & G.S. West) Compère | image |
| Microcystis elachista | (W. West & G.S. West) Compère | image |
| Microcystis elongata | Desikachary | image |
| Microcystis enteromorpha | G.H. Schwabe | Verh. Dt. Wiss. Verein, Santiago de Chile | 3: 115, fig. 1 | 1936 |
| Microcystis exigua | M.D. Zalessky | image |
| Microcystis ferruginea | Wawrik | image |
| Microcystis firma | (Kützing) Schmidle | Bot. Jahrb. | 32: 57 | 1902 |
| Microcystis firma | (Kützing) Schmidle | image |
| Microcystis floccosa | Zalessky | Rev. Gén. Bot. | 38: 34, pl. 10: fig. 2 | 1926 |
| Microcystis flos-aquae var. major | Nygaard | image |
| Microcystis flos-aquae_('flos aquae') | (Wittrock) Kirchner | image |
| Microcystis fusca | M.D. Zalessky | image |
| Microcystis fusco-lutea | (Hansgirg) Forti | image |
| Microcystis fuscolutea | (Hansgirg) Forti | image |
| Microcystis fuscolutea | (Hansgirg) Migula | Krypt.-Fl. Deutschland, Alg. | 1: 37 | 1905 |
| Microcystis gelatinosa | Meneghini | image |
| Microcystis glauca | (Wolle) Drouet & Daily | image |
| Microcystis globosa | M.D. Zalessky | image |
| Microcystis granosa | (Berkeley) Meneghini | image |
| Microcystis grevillei | (Hassall) Elenkin | image |
| Microcystis grevillei f. subrubra_(`subruber') | B. Tracanna | Opera Lilloana | 35: 7, 126, pl. 3: fig. 6 | 1985 |
| Microcystis grevillei_('grevillii') | (C. Agardh) Kützing | image |
| Microcystis halophila | B. Martens & H. Pankow | Int. Rev. Hydrobiol. | 57: 784 | 1972 |
| Microcystis halophila | Martens & Pankow | image |
| Microcystis halophila var. macrococca | (Hansgirg) P.C. Silva in Silva, Basson, & Moe | Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. | 79: 29 | 1996 |
| Microcystis hansgirgiana f. violacea | Claus | image |
| Microcystis hansgirgiana | Hollerbach | image |
| Microcystis holsatica | (Lemmermann) Lemmermann | image |
| Microcystis holsatica f. minor | (Lemmermann) Hollerbach | image |
| Microcystis holsatica var. minor | (Lemmermann) Lemmermann | image |
| Microcystis ichthyoblabe | (Kunze) Kützing | image |
| Microcystis ichthyoblabe var. rosea | Kufferath | image |
| Microcystis ichthyoblabe var. violacea | (Itzigsohn) Forti | image |
| Microcystis ichthyoblabe var. violacea | (Itzigsohn) Forti | image |
| Microcystis incerta | (Lemmermann) Lemmermann | image |
| Microcystis incerta var. elegans | Lemmermann | image |
| Microcystis kerguelensis | Wille | image |
| Microcystis lamelliformis | Hulsinger | image |
| Microcystis litoralis | (Hansgirg) Forti | image |
| Microcystis litoralis | (Hansgirg) M. Aboal | image |
| Microcystis litoralis | (Hansgirg) M. Aboal | Anales Jard. Bot. Madrid | 45: 22 | 1988 |
| Microcystis livida | (Carmichael) Meneghini | image |
| Microcystis lobata | G. Dickie | image |
| Microcystis lutescens | Schiller | SitzBer. Österr. Akad. Wiss., Math.-Naturw. Kl., Abt. I, | 163: 112, fig. 1 | 1954 |
| Microcystis marginata | (Meneghini) Kützing | Tab. phyc. | 1: 6 | 1846 |
| Microcystis marina | (Hansgirg) P.C. Silva in Silva, Basson, & Moe | Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. | 79: 30 | 1996 |
| Microcystis marina | Kützing | image |
| Microcystis maxima | Bernard | image |
| Microcystis mellea | Meneghini | image |
| Microcystis merismopedioides | F.E. Fritsch | image |
| Microcystis microspora | Meneghini | image |
| Microcystis migulae | De Toni f. | Arch. Bot. [Forlì] | 15: 291 | 1939 |
| Microcystis minima | Bernard | Protococc. & Desmid.: | 49, figs. 10-13 | 1908 |
| Microcystis minor | Kützing | image |
| Microcystis minor | Kützing | image |
| Microcystis minuta | Kylin | image |
| Microcystis minuta var. aeruginosa | Lindstedt | image |
| Microcystis minuta var. violacea | Lindstedt | image |
| Microcystis minutissima var. rosea-violacea | Kufferath | image |
| Microcystis minutissima | W. West | Proc. Roy. Irish Acad. | 31{16}: 41 | 1912 |
| Microcystis montana | (Teodorescu) J. de Toni | image |
| Microcystis montigena | L. Hoffmann | Bull. Jard. Bot. Nat. Belg. | 56: 89 | 1986 |
| Microcystis morrenii_('Morreni') | Meneghini | image |
| Microcystis muscicola | (Meneghini) Elenkin | image |
| Microcystis neglecta | Meneghini | image |
| Microcystis nigra | Meneghini | image |
| Microcystis noltii | (C. Agardh) Kützing | image |
| Microcystis novacekii | (Komarek) Compère | image |
| Microcystis ochracea | (Brand) Forti | image |
| Microcystis ochracea | (Brand) Lemmermann | image |
| Microcystis olivacea | Kützing | image |
| Microcystis orae | Kossinskaja | Opred. Morsk. Sinezel. Vodorosl.: | 44 | 1948 |
| Microcystis orissica | W. West | image |
| Microcystis ovalis | G.J. Hollenberg | image |
| Microcystis packardii | (Farlow ex Forti) Tilden | Minnesota algae: | 36 | 1910 |
| Microcystis packardii | (Farlow) Tilden | image |
| Microcystis pallida | (Kützing) Lemmermann | image |
| Microcystis pallida | Migula | image |
| Microcystis pallida | Migula | Krypt. Germaniae, Austria et Helvetiae exsicc.: | 264 | 1931 |
| Microcystis paludosa | (Rabenhorst) Forti | image |
| Microcystis panniformis | J. Komárek, J. Komárková-Legnerová, C.L. Sant'Anna, M.T.P. Azevedo, & P.A.C. Senna | Cryptogamie: Algologie | 23: 165, figs. 14-28 | 2002 |
| Microcystis parasitica | Kützing | Phycol. General.: | 170 | 1843 |
| Microcystis parasitica | Kützing | image |
| Microcystis parasitica var. geresiana | Guerrero | image |
| Microcystis parasitica var. glacialis | Fritsch | image |
| Microcystis parietina | (Nägeli) Elenkin | Monogr. Alg. Cyanoph., Pars Gen.: | 331 adnot., 335 adnot. (as parientina), 336 | 1936 |
| Microcystis parietina | (Naegeli) Elenkin | image |
| Microcystis paroliniana | Meneghini | image |
| Microcystis piscinalis | (Brügger) Forti | image |
| Microcystis piscinalis | (Brügger) Migula | Krypt.-Fl. Deutschland, Alg. | 1: 37 | 1905 |
| Microcystis planctonica | Usachev | image |
| Microcystis prasina | (Wittrock) Lemmermann | image |
| Microcystis protea | Copeland | Ann. New York Acad. Sci. | 36: 20, fig. 2 | 1936 |
| Microcystis protea | J. Copeland | image |
| Microcystis protocystis f. major | Pandey | image |
| Microcystis protocystis f. major | Pandey | image |
| Microcystis protocystis f. minor | Laloraya & Mitra | image |
| Microcystis protocystis | W.B. Crow | image |
| Microcystis protogenita | (Biasoletto) Rabenhorst | image |
| Microcystis pseudofilamentosa | W.B. Crow | image |
| Microcystis pulchra | (Kützing) J. Stein | image |
| Microcystis pulchra | Flotow | image |
| Microcystis pulverea | (H.C. Wood) Migula | Krypt.-Fl. Deutschland, Alg. | 1: 36 | 1905 |
| Microcystis pulverea | (Wood) Forti | image |
| Microcystis pulverea f. elongata | W.B. Crow | image |
| Microcystis pulverea f. incerta | (Lemmermann) Elenkin | image |
| Microcystis pulverea f. minor | (Lemmermann) Hollerbach | image |
| Microcystis pulverea f. racemiformis | (Nygaard) Hollerbach | image |
| Microcystis pulverea var. incerta | (Lemmermann) W.B. Crow | image |
| Microcystis pulverea var. racemiformis | Nygaard | image |
| Microcystis punctata | Schiller | image |
| Microcystis punctiformis | (Kützing) Kirchner | image |
| Microcystis ramosa | Bharadwaja | image |
| Microcystis reinboldii | (Richter) Forti | Sylloge algarum ... Vol. V: | 91 | 1907 |
| Microcystis richteriana | (Hieronymus) P.C. Silva in Silva, Basson, & Moe | Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. | 79: 30 | 1996 |
| Microcystis robusta | (H.W. Clark) Nygaard | image |
| Microcystis roeseana | (De Bary) Elenkin | Monogr. Alg. Cyanophyc., Pars Spec. | 1: | 1938 |
| Microcystis rosea | (Schreber) Kützing | image |
| Microcystis rosea | Kufferath | image |
| Microcystis rosea-persicinus | (Kützing) G.S. West | image |
| Microcystis rubescens | (Brebisson) Meneghini | image |
| Microcystis rupestris | (Lyngbye) Kützing | image |
| Microcystis salina | (Woronichin) Elenkin | Monogr. Alg. Cyanophyc., Pars Spec. | 1: 130 | 1938 |
| Microcystis salinarum | (Hansgirg) P.C. Silva in Silva, Basson, & Moe | Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. | 79: 31 | 1996 |
| Microcystis sanguinea | (C. Agardh) Kützing | Linnaea | 8: 372 | 1833 |
| Microcystis sanguinea | (C. Agardh) Kützing | image |
| Microcystis scripta | (P. Richter) Lemmermann | Z. Fischerei & Hilswiss. | 11: 101 | 1903 |
| Microcystis scripta | (Richter) Geitler | image |
| Microcystis scripta | (Richter) Lemmermann | image |
| Microcystis smithii | J. Komárek & K. Anagnostidis | Preslia | 67: 21, fig. 2:9 (in Smith Wisc. Geol. Nat. Hist. Surv. Bull. 1920) | 1995 |
| Microcystis splendens | G.J. Hollenberg | image |
| Microcystis stagnalis | (Lemmermann) Lemmermann | image |
| Microcystis stagnalis | (Lemmermann) Lemmermann | image |
| Microcystis stagnalis var. pulchra | Lemmermann | Arch. Hydrobiol. | 5: 303, fig. 1 | 1910 |
| Microcystis stagnalis var. rosea | Kufferath | image |
| Microcystis stereophysalis | Meneghini | image |
| Microcystis supersalsa | Schiller | image |
| Microcystis testacea | (A. Braun ex Kützing) Elenkin | image |
| Microcystis thermalis | (Brügger) Claus | image |
| Microcystis thermalis | Yoneda | image |
| Microcystis toxica | E.L. Stephens | image |
| Microcystis toxica | Stephens | image |
| Microcystis umbrina | Kützing | image |
| Microcystis violacea | (Corda) Kützing | Linnaea | 8: 373 | 1833 |
| Microcystis violacea | (Corda) Kützing | image |
| Microcystis viridis | (A. Braun) Lemmermann | Abh. Naturwiss. Ver. Bremen | 17: 342 | 1903 |
| Microcystis wesenbergii | (Komarek) Komarek | image |
| Microcystis wesenbergii f. polymorpha | (G.S. West) Bourrelly | Alg. Eau Douce | 3: 315, expl. pl. 82 | 1970 |
| Microcystis zanardinii | (Hauck) P.C. Silva in Silva, Basson, & Moe | Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. | 79: 31 | 1996 |
| Neodangemannia microcystis | M.J. Wynne, G. Furnari, A. Kryvenda, & T. Friedl in M.J. Wynne & G. Furnari | Nova Hedwigia | 98: 520, figs. 4, 5 | 2014 |
| PALAEOMICROCYSTIS | Korde | image |
| PALAEOMICROCYSTIS | P.K. Maithy | image |
| PALAEOMICROCYSTIS | P.K. Maithy | Palaeobotanist | 22: 138 | 1975 |
| Palaeomicrocystis cambrica | Korde | image |
| Palaeomicrocystis schopfii | P.K. Maithy | Palaeobotanist | 22: 138, pl. 2: figs. 11, 12 | 1975 |
| Phycopeltis microcystis | Schmidle | image |
| Planophila microcystis | (Dangeard) P. Kornmann & P.-H. Sahling | image |
| Polycystis piscinalis var. microcystis | Brügger | image |
| Ulvella microcystis | P.J.L. Dangeard | image |
| Ulvella microcystis | P.J.L. Dangeard | Botaniste | 48: 47, pl. I: figs. 1-7, pl. III: fig. 2 | 1965 |