Aphanizomenon flos-aquae Ralfs ex Bornet & Flahault

Classification:
Empire Prokaryota
Kingdom Bacteria
Subkingdom Negibacteria
Phylum Cyanobacteria
Class Cyanophyceae
Subclass Nostocophycideae
Order Nostocales
Family Nostocaceae
Genus Aphanizomenon

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Pitsford Water, Northampton, UK. BF image.. 05 Sep 2008. © C.F.Carter (chris.carter@6cvw.freeuk.com).

Showing heterocyst. BF image.. 05 Sep 2008. © C.F.Carter (chris.carter@6cvw.freeuk.com).

Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA; golf course, 100x DIC. 05 Oct 2008. Karl Bruun. © Karl Bruun (skogenman@earthlink.net).

Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA; golf course, 1000x, DIC. 05 Oct 2008. Karl Bruun. © Karl Bruun (skogenman@earthlink.net).

Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA; golf course, 1000x, PC. 03 Jul 2009. Karl Bruun. © Karl Bruun (skogenman@earthlink.net).

Bremerton, Washington, USA; Kitsap Lake, 400x, DIC. 07 Feb 2009. Karl Bruun. © Karl Bruun (skogenman@earthlink.net).

Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA; golf course, 1000x DIC. 03 Jul 2009. Karl Bruun. © Karl Bruun (skogenman@earthlink.net).

Aphanizomenon flos-aquae Ralfs ex Bornet & Flahault Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA; golf course, 1000x, DIC

Publication details
Aphanizomenon flos-aquae Ralfs ex Bornet & Flahault 1886: 241

Original publication: Bornet, É. & Flahault, C. (1886 '1888'). Revision des Nostocacées hétérocystées contenues dans les principaux herbiers de France. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Septième Série 7: 177-262.
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Type species
This is the type species (lectotype) of the genus Aphanizomenon.

Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Byssus flosaquae Linnaeus 1753
Conferva flosaquae (Linnaeus) Roth 1806
Oscillatoria flosaquae (Linnaeus) C.Agardh 1812
Nostoc flosaquae (Linnaeus) Lyngbye 1819
Anabaena flosaquae (Linnaeus) Bory 1822
Sphaerozyga flosaquae (Linnaeus) Corda 1836
Limnochilde flosaquae (Linnaeus) Kützing 1843
Micraloa flosaquae (Linnaeus) Trevisan 1845
Trichormus flosaquae (Linnaeus) Ralfs 1850
Aphanizomenon flos-aquae (Linnaeus) Ralfs 1850

General environment
This is a freshwater species.

Distribution by country

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Aphanizomenon flos-aquae (Linnaeus) Ralfs)
Europe: Romania (Caraus 2002).

North America: Minnesota (Hill 1972).

South-west Asia: Israel (Vinogradova et al. 2000).

Asia: China (Hu & Wei 2006).

(as Aphanizomenon flos-aquae Ralfs ex Bornet & Flahault)
Europe: Britain (Whitton et al. 2003, Dean & Sigee 2006), Denmark (Nielsen 2002), France (O'Brien et al 2006, Willame et al 2006, Anon. 2012), Germany (Täuscher 2011), Netherlands (O'Brien et al 2006), Poland (Kokocinski et al. 2011), Portugal (Leao et al. 2009), Romania (Caraus 2012), Spain (Alvarez-Cobelas & Gallardo 1988, Aboal 1996, Aboal & Puig 2005, Carrasco et al. 2007, Pérez, Maidana & Comas 2009), Sweden (Skuja 1948, Karlsson-Elfgren & Brunberg 2004), Turkey (Europe) (Ersanli & Gönülol 2006).

North America: Arkansas (Smith 2010).

South-west Asia: Pakistan (Leghari et al. 2005).

Asia: China (Wu et al. 2010).

Australia and New Zealand: New Zealand (Broady & Merican 2012), Queensland (Day et al. 1995, Phillips 2002, Bostock & Holland 2010).

Nomenclatural notes
Leghari et al. (2005: 204) cite the authority as (Lemm.) Ralfs. - (28 May 2007) - Wendy Guiry

Key references
Dean, A.P. & Sigee, D.C. (2006). Molecular heterogeneity in Aphanizomenon flos-aquae and Anabaena flos-aquae (Cyanophyta): a synchrotron-based Fourier-transform infrared study of lake micropopulations. European Journal of Phycology 41: 201-212.

Desikachary, T.V. (1959). Cyanophyta. pp. i-x, 1-686, 139 pls. New Delhi: Indian Council of Agricultural Research.

Hallegraeff, G.M., Anderson, D.M. & Cembella, A.D., Eds (2003). Manual on harmful marine microalgae. Paris: UNESCO.

Karlsson-Elfgren, I. & Brunberg, A.-K. (2004). The importance of shallow sediments in the recruitment of Anabaena and Aphanizomenon (Cyanophyceae). Journal of Phycology 40: 831-836, 2 figs.

Leghari, M.K., Qureshi, R.M., Mashiatullah, A., Yaqoob, N. & Javed, T. (2005). Harmful algal species from various freshwater localities of Pakistan. Int. J. Phycol. Phycochem. 1(2): 199-206.

O'Brien, H.E., Miadlikowska, J. & Lutzoni, F. (2006). Assessing host specialization in symbiotic cyanobacteria associated with four closely related species of the lichen fungus Peltigera. European Journal of Phycology 40: 363-378.

Thomazeau, S., Houdan-Fourmont, A., Couté, A., Duval, C., Couloux, A., Rousseau, F. & Bernard, C. (2010). The contribution of sub-Saharan African strains to the phylogeny of cyanobacteria: focusing on the Nostacaceae (Nostocales, Cyanobacteria). Journal of Phycology 46(3): 564-579.

Whitton, B.A. (2002). Phylum Cyanophyta (Cyanobacteria). In: The Freshwater Algal Flora of the British Isles. An identification guide to freshwater and terrestrial algae. (John, D.M., Whitton, B.A. & Brook, A.J. Eds), pp. 25-122. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Willame, R., Boutte, C., Grubisic, S., Wilmotte, A., Komarek, J. & Hoffmann, L. (2006). Morphological and molecular characterization of planktonic cyanobacteria from Belgium and Luxembourg. Journal of Phycology 42: 1312-1332.

Wu, Z., Shi, J., Lin, S. & Li, R. (2010). Unraveling molecular diversity and phylogeny of Aphanizomenon (Nostocales, Cyanobacteria) strains isolated from China . Journal of Phycology 46(5): 1048-1058.

UTEX Cultures
UTEX Culture LB 2384 Aphanizomenon flos-aquae
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CCAP Cultures
CCAP Strain Number 1401/1 Aphanizomenon flos-aquae Ralfs ex Bornet & Flahault flosaquae
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SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Aphanizomenon&species=flos-aquae

SCCAP Cultures
Cultures from the Scandinavian Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Copenhagen (SCCAP) and Protozoa may be viewed at http://www.sccap.dk/search/algaebase.asp?Genus=Aphanizomenon&Species=flos-aquae

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 11 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 08 October 2012 by M.D. Guiry

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References
(Please note: only references with the binomials in the title are included. The information is from the Literature database.)

Allman, G.J. (1855). Observations on Aphanizomenon flos-aquae and a species of Peridinea. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science 3: 21-25.
Carlton, R.G. & Paerl, H.W. (1989). Oxygen-induced changes in morphology of aggregates of Aphanizomenon flos-aquae (Cyanophyceae): implications for nitrogen fixation potentials. Journal of Phycology 25: 326-333.
Cmiech, H.A., Leedale, G.F. & Reynolds, C.S. (1988). Morphological and ultrastructural variability of planktonic Cyanophyceae in relation to seasonal periodicity. IV. Aphanizomenon flos-aquae: vegetatice cells, heterocysts, akinetes. British Phycological Journal 23: 239-250.
de Nobel, W.T., Snoep, J.L., Westerhoff, H.V. & Mur, L.R. (1997). Interaction of nitrogen fixation and phosphorus limitation in Aphanizomenon flos-aquae (Cyanophyceae). Journal of Phycology 33: 794-799, 4 figs, 2 tables.
Dean, A.P. & Sigee, D.C. (2006). Molecular heterogeneity in Aphanizomenon flos-aquae and Anabaena flos-aquae (Cyanophyta): a synchrotron-based Fourier-transform infrared study of lake micropopulations. European Journal of Phycology 41: 201-212.
Heiskanen, A.-S. & Olli, K. (1996). Sedimentation and buoyancy of Aphanizomenon cf. flos-aquae (Nostocales, Cyanophyta) in a nutrient-replete and nutrient-depleted coastal area of the Baltic Sea. Phycologia 35: 94-101, 10 figs.
Kohl, J.-G., Dudel, G., Schlangstedt, M. & Kühl, H. (1985). On the morphological and ecological distinction of Aphanizomenon flos-aquae Ralfs ex Born. et Flah. and A. gracile (Lemm.) Lemm.. Archiv für Protistenkunde 130: 119-131.
Konopka, A., Kromkamp, J. & Mur, L.R. (1987). Regulation of gas vesicle content and buoyancy in light- or phosphate-limited cultures of Aphanizomenon flos-aquae (Cyanophyta). Journal of Phycology 23: 70-78.
Kromkamp, J., Konopka, A. & Mur, L.R. (1986). Buoyancy regulation in Aphanizomenon flos-aquae: the importance of carbohydrate accumulation and gas vesicle collapse. British Phycological Journal 21: 332.
Li, R., Carmichael, W.W. & Pereira, P. (2003). Morphological and 16S rRNA gene evidence for reclassification of the paralytic shellfish toxin producing Aphanizomenon flos-aquae LMECYA 31 as Aphanizomenon issatschenkoi (Cyanophyceae) (Note). Journal of Phycology 39: 814-818.
McLachlan, J., Hammer, U.T. & Gorham, P.R. (1962). Observations on the growth and colony habits of ten strains of Aphanizomenon flos-aquae. Phycologia 2: 157-168, 2 figs, 1 table.
O'Flaherty, L.M. & Phinney, H.K. (1970). Requirements for the maintenance and growth of Aphanizomenon flos-aquae in culture. Journal of Phycology 6: 95-97, 3 figs, 1 table.
Takano, K. & Hino, S. (2000). Effect of temperature and soluble reactive phosphorus on abundance of Aphanizomenon flos-aquae (Cyanophyceae). Phycological Research 48: 9-14.
Tsujimura, S., Ishikawa, K. & Tsukada, H. (2001). Effect of temperature on growth of the cyanobacterium Aphanizomenon flos-aquae in Lake Biwa and Lake Yogo. Phycological Research 49: 275-281.
Wildman, R.B., Loescher, J.H. & Winger, C.L. (1975). Development and germination of akinetes of Aphanizomenon flos-aquae. Journal of Phycology 11: 96-103, 15 figs, 1 table.

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