King vibrating alga

King vibrating alga
	King's rocking alga ( Oscillatoria princeps )
Systematics
Trunk :	Cyanobacteria (Cyanobacteria)
Class :	Cyanobacteria (Cyanobacteria)
Order :	Oscillatoriales
Family :	Oscillatoriaceae
Genre :	Oscillatoria
Type :	King vibrating alga
Scientific name
	Oscillatoria princeps
	Vaucher ex Gomont 1892

The king's vibrating alga ( Oscillatoria princeps ) is a type of filamentous cyanobacteria .

Features and habitat

The filaments are blue-green, red-brown, reddish or purple in color. The cells are wider than they are long and have gas vesicles. The cell walls in the trichome can be seen. O. princeps does not form heterocysts .

The king's rocker alga is distributed worldwide as plankton in fresh water.

Systematics

The species is the type species of the genus Oscillatoria . A synonym is Lyngbya princeps ( Vaucher ex Hansgirg , 1892 ). It is similar to Oscillatoria limosa , this has wider cells in relation to its length.

supporting documents

↑ 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 .
↑ David M. John, Brian A. Whitton, Alan J. Brook: The freshwater algal flora of the British Isles. An identification guide to freshwater and terrestrial algae, Vol. 1 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2002, ISBN 0-521-77051-3 (+ 1 CD-ROM).
↑ Species information at Algaebase

[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] David M. John, Brian A. Whitton, Alan J. Brook: The freshwater algal flora of the British Isles. An identification guide to freshwater and terrestrial algae, Vol. 1 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2002, ISBN 0-521-77051-3 (+ 1 CD-ROM).

[3] Species information at Algaebase