Calothrix
A 1921 drawing of Calothrix
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Cyanobacteria
Class: Cyanophyceae
Order: Nostocales
Family: Rivulariaceae
Genus: Calothrix
Bornet & Flahault 1886[1]
Species

Calothrix adscendens
Calothrix atricha
Calothrix braunii
Calothrix breviarticulata
Calothrix caespitora
Calothrix confervicola
Calothrix crustacea
Calothrix donnelli
Calothrix elenkinii
Calothrix epiphytica
Calothrix fusca
Calothrix juliana
Calothrix parasitica
Calothrix parietina
Calothrix pilosa
Calothrix pulvinata
Calothrix scopulorum
Calothrix scytonemicola
Calothrix simulans
Calothrix solitaria
Calothrix stagnalis
Calothrix stellaris
Calothrix thermalis
Calothrix 336/3

Calothrix is a genus of cyanobacteria. They are generally found in freshwater.[2]

Bright-field microscopy image of epiphytic cyanobacterial symbiont Calothrix rhizosoleniae SC01 9 (indicated by arrows) attached to a host diatom Chaetoceros sp. (c). Scale bar, 50 μm.

References

  1. ^ "Calothrix". AlgaeBase. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
  2. ^ Rippka R, Castenholz RW, Herdman M (2015). "Form-Calothrix". In Whitman WB (ed.). Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. doi:10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00462.


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