Calothrix

Calothrix
	A 1921 drawing of Calothrix
Scientific 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

"Calothrix". AlgaeBase. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
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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[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.