Pseudanabaena arcuata (Skuja) Anagnostidis and Komárek

Lee, Mi-Ae Song and Ok-Min, 2017, A study of six newly recorded species of cyanobacteria (Cyanophyceae, Cyanophyta) in Korea, Journal of Species Research 6 (2), pp. 154-162 : 158-160

Pseudanabaena arcuata (Skuja) Anagnostidis and Komárek ( Fig. 6 )

Trichomes are solitary, short. Cells are 1­2 μm wide, 2­10 μm long, cylindrical, pale blue-green to pale greyolive-green, cell content finely granulated. Apical cell is acute, cylindrical and conical, or slightly truncate.

Ecology: We collected this species from eutrophic reservoirs on September 23, 2015. This species was distributed in freshwater in mucilaginous layers and as free-floating specimens from mucilage ( Komárek and Anagnostidis, 2005).

Distribution: Asia: Russia (Siberia) ( Smirnova, 2014).

Site of Collection: Site 6

Figures

Fig. 6. Microscopic photographs of Pseudanabaena arcuata (Skuja) Anagnostidis and Komárek (arrow) of the cultured samples from algal culture collection at Kyonggi University. Scale bars represent 10 μm.