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DIVISION
Cyanobacteria
CLASS
Cyanophyceae
ORDER
Synechococcales
FAMILY
Synechococcaceae
GENUS
Cyanonephron
SPECIES
Cyanonephron styloides, Hickel , 1985
Morphological Characteristics

Colonies free floating, composed of very fine, indistinct, colourless stalked gelatinous material, semicircular subgroups of 4-6-8 cells are formed within the colonies. Cells cylindrical, rod-shaped to kidney-shaped, always slightly arcuate, usually covered with a thin layer of indistinct, colourless slime (staining).

Morphological Data
Distinctive morphometric characters
  • Cell Length: from 2.3 to 4.5 µm
  • Cell Width: from 0.8 to 1.2 µm
  • Diameter of colony: from 12 to 29 µm
Distribution
Freshwater, brackishwater, planktonic in shallow, hypertrophic lakes. Sporadic in Baltic region.
 
Distribution: Australia and New Zealand: Queensland (Bostock & Holland 2010).
Notes

Toxicity:

Not reported.

Resistence Stages:

Not reported.

References

Census of the Queensland Flora., Brisbane: Queensland Herbarium Biodiversity and Ecosystem Sciences, Department of Environment and Resource Management., Bostock P.D., Holland A.E., 2010, 1-320

Checklist of Baltic Sea Phytoplankton Species. Baltic Sea Environment Proceedings No. 95, Helsinki Commission Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission, Hällfors G., 2004,

Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa / Freshwater Flora of Central Europe. 19/1. Cyanoprokaryota. 1. Teil/Part 1: Chroococcales., Spektrum Akademischer Verlag., Komarek J., Anagnostidis K., 2008, 548

Biovolumes and size-classes of phytoplankton in the Baltic Sea, HELCOM Balt.Sea Environ. Proc. No. 106, Olenina I., Hajdu S., Edler L., Andersson A., Wasmund N., Busch S., Göbel J., Gromisz S., Huseby S., Huttunen M., Jaanus A., Kokkonen P., Ledaine I. and Niemkiewicz E., 2006, 1-144

SHAPE
Shape Type
simple
Shape Unit
Cell
Cod:
2 - Prolate Spheroid
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