Zygnema sp.

A freshwater algae at Kowen, ACT

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Identification history

	Zygnema sp.	25 Oct 2016	MichaelMulvaney
	Zygnema sp.	1 Oct 2016	KenT

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User's notes

Growing in a farm/fire-fighting dam with likely to be near permanent water. First three sets of microscope images taken with 10x, 20x & 40x objectives, width of filaments 36 µm. Final set of microscope images show a protozoan epiphyte (possibly a choanoflagellate with a body length of 10 µm) and a dead algal cell that has been parasitized by what appear to be several chytrid fungi (colourless cells up to 15 µm diameter attached to outside of algal cell)

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Location information

Sighting information

1,001 - 10,000 Abundance
26 Sep 2016 01:44 PM Recorded on
KenT Recorded by
Collections
Algae, Cyanobacteria, other bacteria and viruses

Species information

Zygnema sp. Scientific name
A freshwater algae Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Machine learning