Common hover ball

Common hover ball
	Common suspension ball ( Woronichinia naegeliana )
Systematics
Trunk :	Cyanobacteria (Cyanobacteria)
Class :	Cyanobacteria (Cyanobacteria)
Order :	Chroococcales
Family :	Gomphosphaeriaceae
Genre :	Voronichinia
Type :	Common hover ball
Scientific name
	Woronichinia naegeliana
	( Unger ) Elenkin , 1933

The common suspension ball ( Woronichinia naegeliana ) ( Syn .: Gomphosphaeria naegeliana ) is a type of cyanobacteria , or "blue-green algae". The species is a type species of its genus. The species lives in plankton in lakes and ponds.

features

The blue-green, slightly elongated, ellipsoidal cells lie together in a gelatinous ball and are connected by stalks that are difficult to see. The size of the single cell is approx. 5 µm, the size of the often irregularly shaped colony approx. 50 µm, however, is very variable. The formation of gas vacuoles is possible.

Individual evidence

↑ Heinz Streble , Dieter Krauter : Life in the water drop. Microflora and microfauna of freshwater. An identification book. 10th edition. Kosmos, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-440-10807-4 .
↑ http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=30038
^ DM John, Brian A. Whitton, Alan J. Brook: The freshwater algal flora of the British Isles: an identification guide to freshwater and terrestrial algae , Volume 1. Cambridge University Press (England) 2002.

[1] Heinz Streble , Dieter Krauter : Life in the water drop. Microflora and microfauna of freshwater. An identification book. 10th edition. Kosmos, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-440-10807-4 .

[2] ttp://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=30038

[3] DM John, Brian A. Whitton, Alan J. Brook: The freshwater algal flora of the British Isles: an identification guide to freshwater and terrestrial algae , Volume 1. Cambridge University Press (England) 2002.