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Scientific Investigations Report 2006–5101–D

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Scientific Investigations Report 2006–5101–D

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Table A9. List of algal taxa identified in Richest Target Habitat samples, Willamette River basin and surrounding area, Oregon and Washington.

[Algal taxa from 28 Richest Targeted Habitat (RTH) samples. Abbreviations: cm2, square centimeter; μm3/cm2, cubic micron per square centimeter; sp., species; var., variety; D, diatom; BG, blue-green algae; G, green algae; E, euglenophyte; R, red algae; aff., affinis (similar to); cf., confer (compare with)]

Scientific name Algal
division
Number
of sites
Maximum abundance
Density

(number of
cells/cm2)
Biovolume
(μm3/cm2)
Achnanthes conspicua D 9 174,558 9,316,189
Achnanthes lanceolata var. haynaldii D 8 7,178 2,078,098
Achnanthes ricula D 2 1,196 1,786,041
Achnanthes sp. 1 D 2 5,692 400,668
Achnanthes subhudsonis var. kraeuselii D 17 1,714,946 87,217,271
Achnanthidium exiguum var. heterovalvum D 2 1,276 142,871
Achnanthidium minutissimum D 27 731,894 29,102,105
Achnanthidium pyrenaicum D 2 805 66,995
Achnanthidium sp. 10 D 18 526,964 44,451,564
Adlafia bryophila D 4 22,770 1,077,659
Adlafia sp. 2 D 1 1,196 136,376
Amphora copulata D 4 1,196 2,109,603
Amphora inariensis D 3 89,606 16,001,306
Amphora pediculus D 13 352,026 35,385,789
Anorthoneis excentrica D 1 66 497,890
Aphanocapsa sp. BG 1 3,776,737 94,418,425
Asterionella formosa D 3 598 247,697
Aulacoseira ambigua D 2 2,951 1,058,304
Aulacoseira crenulata D 7 58,114 34,735,559
Aulacoseira distans D 1 360 127,017
Aulacoseira granulata D 5 31,906 15,312,909
Aulacoseira italica D 1 360 298,628
Aulacoseira muzzanensis D 1 719 2,292,481
Bacillaria paradoxa D 5 33,602 39,311,265
Caloneis amphisbaena D 1 360 2,919,321
Caloneis bacillum D 4 8,374 3,757,193
Caloneis hyalina D 8 8,401 2,974,192
Caloneis schumanniana D 1 719 583,193
Caloneis silicula D 2 268 368,071
Calothrix fusca BG 1 48,528 12,433,455
Cladophora glomerata G 2 50,004 51,340,971,926
Cocconeis pediculus D 1 58 202,379
Cocconeis placentula D 1 2,517 1,861,795
Cocconeis placentula var. euglypta D 25 164,655 130,032,466
Cocconeis placentula var. lineata D 18 121,015 130,040,130
Cocconeis placentula var. pseudolineata D 1 215 381,612
Ctenophora pulchella var. lacerata D 2 700 6,031,252
Cyclostephanos tholiformis D 3 15,953 3,094,622
Cyclotella meneghiniana D 4 28,002 23,428,779
Cyclotella pseudostelligera D 2 2,551 217,556
Cyclotella stelligera D 1 268 65,023
Cymbella cymbiformis D 1 1,290 2,664,683
Cymbella mesiana D 2 9,686 20,770,780
Cymbella mexicana D 2 4,879 217,210,927
Cymbella sp. 1 D 1 2,198 4,075,979
Cymbella tumida D 1 5,692 16,095,195
Denticula tenuis D 1 598 303,256
Diadesmis confervacea D 3 78,406 27,045,903
Diadesmis contenta D 3 9,686 340,549
Diatoma vulgaris D 2 95,718 286,082,017
Diploneis elliptica D 2 334 622,325
Diploneis parma D 2 8,728 12,167,326
Diploneis pseudovalis D 1 360 308,851
Encyonema minutum D 7 108,157 22,377,969
Encyonema prostratum D 1 15,953 29,576,818
Encyonema silesiacum D 11 267,546 91,228,617
Eunotia exigua D 4 1,543 258,799
Eunotia flexuosa D 3 4,843 14,241,971
Eunotia formica D 1 37 283,292
Eunotia incisa D 1 805 299,498
Eunotia minor D 6 24,510 12,949,517
Eunotia monodon D 1 719 1,575,396
Eunotia muscicola var. tridentula D 1 268 150,230
Eunotia pectinalis var. undulata D 1 9,686 28,244,330
Eunotia pirla D 1 5,692 18,099,135
Eunotia praerupta D 1 134 462,764
Fallacia tenera D 1 1,196 8,973,273
Fragilaria capucina var. gracilis D 6 45,540 3,312,529
Fragilaria capucina var. rumpens D 3 360 40,537
Fragilaria cf. crotonensis D 4 63,431 54,360,226
Fragilaria crotonensis D 1 117 49,676
Fragilaria nanana D 1 58 6,056
Fragilaria sp. 7 D 2 15,953 5,341,112
Fragilaria vaucheriae D 7 23,929 5,149,988
Fragilariforma bicapitata D 1 4,843 4,150,282
Fragilariforma virescens D 1 37 31,945
Frustulia amphipleuroides D 1 4,879 27,566,671
Frustulia crassinervia D 1 537 230,454
Frustulia rhomboides D 1 37 131,964
Frustulia vulgaris D 6 24,510 21,310,568
Frustulia weinholdii D 1 9,804 27,001,994
Geissleria acceptata D 3 5,819 4,579,240
Gomphoneis eriense var. variabilis D 1 20,585 628,550,203
Gomphoneis herculeana D 1 430 2,884,920
Gomphoneis minuta D 1 9,501 290,100,101
Gomphonema aff. Kobayasii D 19 222,006 1,585,057
Gomphonema affine D 5 22,770 28,562,881
Gomphonema americobtusatum D 3 334 435,107
Gomphonema angustatum D 11 24,396 7,340,544
Gomphonema bipunctatum D 1 360 468,093
Gomphonema drutelingense D 1 1,609 2,095,005
Gomphonema gracile D 4 15,953 16,744,119
Gomphonema innocens D 3 56,925 32,754,489
Gomphonema kobayasii D 21 251,015 36,550,747
Gomphonema lagenula D 13 23,929 6,231,043
Gomphonema mexicanum D 2 2,682 2,889,033
Gomphonema micropus D 3 4,902 1,445,550
Gomphonema minutum D 3 2,909 509,968
Gomphonema parvulius D 1 5,600 7,291,720
Gomphonema parvulum D 5 31,906 7,953,419
Gomphonema parvulum var. saprophilum D 1 719 936,186
Gomphonema patrickii D 1 537 143,654
Gomphonema pumilum D 1 2,683 598,872
Gomphonema rhombicum D 17 136,619 62,448,261
Gomphonema sp. 2 D 4 775,808 282,880,603
Gomphonema sp. 3 D 1 37 48,533
Gomphonema subclavatum D 1 360 239,466
Gomphosphenia lingulatiformis D 1 22,729 10,921,783
Gyrosigma acuminatum D 1 202 1,418,469
Gyrosigma nodiferum D 1 4,843 18,880,003
Gyrosigma scalproides D 1 2,451 3,591,376
Hantzschia amphioxys D 3 598 664,160
Heteroleibleinia sp. BG 1 251,348 2,149,644
Hippodonta capitata D 4 9,804 3,297,494
Homoeothrix janthina BG 21 11,854,144 43,235,144
Homoeothrix juliana BG 4 979,535 51,670,281
Karayevia clevei D 2 360 58,612
Karayevia laterostrata D 1 771 1,151,596
Leptolyngbya sp. BG 9 9,510,686 30,054,496
Luticola goeppertiana D 1 16,801 12,950,671
Luticola mutica D 2 719 421,950
Mayamaea atomus D 2 15,953 514,641
Melosira varians D 16 250,469 1,231,832,428
Meridion circulare var. constrictum D 4 5,600 1,492,472
Merismopedia glauca BG 1 643,866 12,034,106
Navicula absoluta D 1 4,187 998,760
Navicula antonii D 9 31,906 4,776,375
Navicula arvensis D 1 719 43,775
Navicula capitatoradiata D 2 1,196 672,127
Navicula concentrica D 8 55,835 34,511,814
Navicula constans var. symmetrica D 1 360 386,180
Navicula cryptocephala D 10 34,314 11,320,621
Navicula cryptotenella D 17 68,310 16,471,200
Navicula germainii D 4 39,203 17,499,767
Navicula gregaria D 11 12,255 3,225,920
Navicula hintzii D 1 5,981 1,733,616
Navicula ingenua D 2 2,991 129,566
Navicula integra D 1 3,015 1,241,277
Navicula kotschyi D 1 268 62,799
Navicula lanceolata D 10 15,953 23,134,226
Navicula menisculus D 4 1,414 534,228
Navicula minima D 21 313,086 12,682,552
Navicula mobiliensis var. minor D 1 7,353 15,569,915
Navicula peregrina D 1 101 346,236
Navicula pseudotenelloides D 1 22,402 1,201,442
Navicula radiosa D 1 37 41,391
Navicula recens D 1 1,543 777,048
Navicula reichardtiana D 1 1,720 207,842
Navicula reinhardtii D 1 112 297,952
Navicula rhynchocephala D 1 771 551,936
Navicula rostellata D 3 11,201 8,958,057
Navicula ruttnerii var. capitata D 2 7,178 640,216
Navicula schroeteri var. escambia D 12 66,177 48,109,997
Navicula sp. 44 D 1 3,167 3,042,572
Navicula sp. 47 D 1 6,334 334,297
Navicula subadnata D 1 133 995,781
Navicula subminuscula D 3 31,906 2,050,933
Navicula tenelloides D 6 9,686 1,218,147
Navicula tripunctata D 7 9,316 8,675,142
Navicula trivialis D 4 5,393 3,898,691
Navicula veneta D 2 1,196 200,083
Navicula viridulacalcis D 2 1,794 13,459,929
Navicula wallacei D 1 268 97,606
Nitzschia acidoclinata D 2 489 5,728,823
Nitzschia agnita D 1 15,953 1,459,116
Nitzschia amphibia D 18 624,722 121,686,962
Nitzschia angustata D 1 1,196 6,291,970
Nitzschia archibaldii D 1 15,953 997,034
Nitzschia brevissima D 1 805 337,018
Nitzschia capitellata D 5 9,804 3,673,000
Nitzschia dissipata D 17 239,295 59,895,837
Nitzschia filiformis D 1 2,800 2,172,325
Nitzschia fonticola D 16 199,412 18,979,964
Nitzschia fossilis D 1 2,393 28,026,405
Nitzschia gracilis D 2 1,196 432,220
Nitzschia heufleriana D 5 2,991 14,712,836
Nitzschia inconspicua D 17 311,083 9,212,723
Nitzschia intermedia D 2 1,196 828,511
Nitzschia liebethruthii D 1 1,276 114,439
Nitzschia linearis D 3 17,456 47,656,820
Nitzschia linearis var. subtilis D 3 2,451 1,941,599
Nitzschia palea D 10 12,255 3,233,473
Nitzschia palea var. debilis D 6 19,517 2,887,687
Nitzschia perminuta D 1 101 9,803
Nitzschia radicula D 1 9,686 113,457,180
Nitzschia recta D 7 15,953 28,511,891
Nitzschia sigmoidea D 13 24,214 64,554,667
Nitzschia sociabilis D 6 39,216 8,558,069
Nitzschia solita D 1 5,600 1,066,901
Nitzschia tubicola D 1 1,276 288,948
Nitzschia vermicularis D 1 11,201 51,243,212
Nupela silvahercynia D 2 16,198 121,500,890
Nupela sp. 1 D 3 202,089 2,241,256
Nupela wellneri D 1 1,196 8,973,273
Oedogonium sp. G 6 56,756 1,132,047,129
Oscillatoria princeps BG 1 4,897,853 358,250,872
Pandorina morum G 1 32,885 2,795,192
Parlibellus protracta D 1 37 33,772
Phormidium autumnale BG 16 4,011,385 188,628,500
Phormidium retzii BG 3 150,011 22,207,813
Pinnularia divergens D 4 207 1,552,878
Pinnularia microstauron D 4 4,902 5,905,940
Pinnularia sudetica D 1 638 2,370,394
Pinnularia viridis D 1 1,079 5,906,620
Placoneis elginensis D 1 1,438 759,305
Planothidium delicatulum D 1 1,196 368,248
Planothidium frequentissimum D 20 86,806 6,694,362
Planothidium lanceolatum D 22 215,365 53,446,394
Planothidium rostratum D 7 4,843 576,598
Porphyrosiphon luteus BG 1 1,029,009 25,725,232
Porphyrosiphon martensianus BG 6 3,316,956 357,276,740
Psammothidium lauenburgianum D 1 5,819 8,687,172
Pseudanabaena sp. BG 8 533,669 1,387,073
Reimeria sinuata D 18 91,080 15,338,294
Rhoicosphenia abbreviata D 25 726,420 307,435,607
Rhopalodia gibba D 1 1,196 7,244,122
Scenedesmus acutus G 1 13,354 432,707
Scenedesmus denticulatus G 1 49,219 1,000,115
Scenedesmus ecornis G 2 30,002 744,477
Scenedesmus quadricauda G 2 30,002 988,363
Sellaphora laevissima D 2 805 895,327
Sellaphora pupula D 8 16,801 7,770,995
Sellaphora seminulum D 21 143,577 486,913,494
Simonsenia delognei D 4 8,728 456,124
Spirogyra sp. G 1 10,016 808,152,137
Stauroneis kriegeri D 4 805 124,252
Stauroneis phoenicenteron D 1 207 11,516,940
Staurosira construens D 2 11,385 2,379,854
Staurosira construens var. binodis D 2 137,210 68,470,231
Staurosira construens var. subsalina D 1 11,201 3,170,875
Staurosira construens var. venter D 4 106,542 9,569,688
Staurosira elliptica D 1 117 5,501
Staurosirella pinnata D 1 62,956 10,134,217
Stephanodiscus hantzschii D 1 360 115,171
Stephanodiscus minutulus D 1 202 58,697
Stigeoclonium lubricum G 1 213,468 84,043,977
Surirella amphioxys D 1 360 384,625,288
Surirella angusta D 6 5,600 6,141,920
Surirella biseriata D 2 5,600 89,695,680
Surirella brebissonii var. kuetzingii D 4 11,637 11,901,456
Synedra acus D 2 2,909 4,921,361
Synedra parasitica D 6 52,367 4,721,265
Synedra parasitica var. subconstricta D 2 1,276 126,279
Synedra ulna D 16 22,402 124,196,962
Tabellaria flocculosa D 1 268 121,629
Thalassiosira pseudonana D 3 15,953 763,341
Trachelomonas volvocina E 2 5,930 8,715,732
Tryblionella apiculata D 2 5,600 2,114,415
Tryblionella calida D 2 5,600 6,062,124
Tryblionella debilis D 1 4,902 1,807,780
Tryblionella victoriae D 1 268 3,142,500
Unknown Cyanophyte (colonial coccoid) BG 8 113,512 143,431,520
Unknown Cyanophyte (colonial coccoid) BG 1 6,180,652 2,697,679,030
Unknown Rhodophyte Florideophycidae (chantransia) R 25 2,442,559 1,174,999,542

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