''Muriella'' is a genus of

green algae The green algae (singular: green alga) are a group consisting of the Prasinodermophyta and its unnamed sister which contains the Chlorophyta and Charophyta/Streptophyta. The land plants (Embryophytes) have emerged deep in the Charophyte alga as ...

in the class Trebouxiophyceae. It is named after

Muriel Bristol Blanche Muriel Bristol (21 April 1888 – 15 March 1950) was a British phycologist who worked at Rothamsted Research (then Rothamsted Experimental Station) in 1919. Her research focused on the mechanisms by which algae acquire nutrients. Stati ...

.Lund, J. W. G. (1947) Observations on soil algae III: Species of chlamydomonas EHR in relation to variability within the genus. New Phytologist, 46, 185–194.

References

Trebouxiophyceae genera Chlorellaceae {{green algae-stub