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Cyanophyceae: Nostocales: Nostocaceae

 Anabaena sp.
[Bory 1822] Bornet et Flahault 1886 (John et al. 2002)
Bory de St. Vincent 1822 sensu Rippka et al. 1979 (Bergey's Manual 2nd. 2001)

Anabaena Family: Trichome (filamentous structure) with heterocysts; with equal diameter throughout hole length; no branching; heterocysts intervening or at base.
Genus: Mucous sheath, nearly invisible; heterocysts intervening; filments solitary or agglutinate within a gelatinous matrix (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).

Anabaena sp. , cell body 3-9 μm long, 8 μm wide, L/W=0.4-1.1, heterocysts 8 μm long, 8 μm wide, L/W=1.0, x 640, Onnenai, Kushiro marsh, Kushiro city, Hokkaido, Japan, October 16, 2005 by Y. Tsukii
scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400 : scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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