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ILLINOIS RIVER BASIN


05575850       HORSE CREEK AT SPRINGFIELD, IL

 

LOCATION.-- Lat 39°41'46", long 89°34'21" (NAD of 1927), SE1/4NE1/4 sec. 6, T.14 N., R.4 W., Sangamon County, Hydrologic Unit 07130007. Upstream boundary is located about 90 meters downstream from bridge.

 

DRAINAGE AREA.-- Undetermined

 

PERIOD OF RECORD.--

BIOLOGICAL

 

ALGAE: Water year 1997.

 

BENTHIC MACROINVERTEBRATES: Water year 1997.

 

REMARKS FOR CURRENT YEAR.--Algae community samples were collected as part of the National Water-Quality Assessment program (NAWQA) in the lower Illinois River Basin. A quantitative sample was collected in accordance with NAWQA protocols (Cuffney and others, 1993).



PERIPHYTON ALGAE, QUANTITATIVE, RTH (Richest-targeted habitat, cobbles or snags)
[sp., species; Chlorophyta, Green algae; Cyanophyta, Blue-green algae; Chrysophyta, Golden algae, for example diatoms; Cryptophyta, Cryptophytes; Euglenophyta, Euglenoids; Pyrrhophyta, Dinoflagellates; Rhodophyta, Red algae]

Quantitative sample
Phylum
TaxonCells
(number/cm2)
Biovolume
(biovolume/cm2)

Reach A
8/8/1997

Chlorophyta
Chlorella ellipsoidea Gerneck 1836.46027 177757.5608
Chrysophyta
Amphora montana Krasske 181.52675 39034.39006
Amphora pediculus (Kützing) Grunow 3176.74202 299007.7222
Apistonema polychloris Ettl 7345.84106 2129755.214
Caloneis schumanniana (Grunow) Cleve 181.52675 147231.823
Cocconeis placentula var. euglypta (Ehrenberg) Cleve 3539.7992 2442622.136
Cocconeis placentula var. lineata (Ehrenberg) Van Heurck 2178.33755 2380347.065
Cyclotella atomus Hustedt 363.05534 30451.8199
Cyclotella meneghiniana Kützing 90.76338 78429.44283
Diploneis puella (Schumann) Cleve 181.52675 52946.92322
Encyonema minutum (Hilse) Mann 181.52675 37263.89117
Fallacia omissa (Hustedt) Mann 181.52675 34225.02038
Fallacia tenera (Hustedt) Mann 816.87589 127010.586
Gomphonema acuminatum Ehrenberg 181.52675 244488.4194
Gomphonema angustatum (Kützing) Rabenhorst 181.52675 56975.36552
Gomphonema insigne Gregory 363.05534 782909.2954
Gomphonema minutum (Agardh) Agardh 544.58393 181418.5083
Gomphonema olivaceum (Lyngbye) Kützing 363.05534 141831.5927
Gomphonema parvulum (Kützing) Kützing 544.58393 118430.0941
Gomphosphenia grovei (Schmid) Lange-Bertalot 544.58393 584366.3325
Gyrosigma scalproides (Rabenhorst) Cleve 363.05534 531976.527
Heterothrix sp. 0A UL NAWQA EJ 7345.84106 7960632.868
Mayamaea atomus (Kützing) Lange-Bertalot 544.58393 15272.53557
Melosira lineata Agardh 363.05534 371054.9044
Melosira varians Agardh 1270.69644 6448085.619
Navicula canalis Patrick 181.52675 60374.25809
Navicula capitatoradiata Germain 181.52675 104875.6967
Navicula cryptocephala Kützing 363.05534 122860.0146
Navicula difficillima Hustedt 363.05534 8012.11706
Navicula erifuga Lange-Bertalot 1724.51699 755767.4204
Navicula exilis Kützing 544.58393 193964.2231
Navicula germainii Wallace 2269.10092 1497749.208
Navicula gregaria Donkin 726.11252 202544.2563
Navicula kotschyi Grunow 181.52675 39937.35054
Navicula meniscus Schumann 181.52675 303591.1355
Navicula minima Grunow 1724.51699 69126.65989
Navicula recens Lange-Bertalot 363.05534 185362.822
Navicula subminuscula Manguin 726.11252 52875.77261
Navicula symmetrica Patrick 1089.16785 1247093.175
Navicula tenelloides Hustedt 816.87589 135112.9113
Navicula tripunctata (Müller) Bory 453.81872 423838.0603
Navicula trivialis Lange-Bertalot 1089.16785 1187632.016
Nitzschia amphibia Grunow 2450.62951 456635.3705
Nitzschia dissipata (Kützing) Grunow 453.81872 115372.1855
Nitzschia dissipata var. media (Hantzsch) Grunow 181.52675 44609.92408
Nitzschia frustulum (Kützing) Grunow 272.29196 13409.05841
Nitzschia microcephala Grunow 272.29196 29567.10274
Nitzschia palea (Kützing) Smith 1089.16785 329836.7628
Nitzschia palea var. debilis (Kützing) Grunow 816.87589 139279.2873
Ophiocytium sp. 0A UL NAWQA EJ 11018.7616 116771.326
Pinnularia gibba Ehrenberg 181.52675 280944.2057
Pinnularia spp. 181.52675 1519011.435
Planothidium lanceolatum (Brébisson ex Kützing) Lange-Bertalot 7170.36361 2029937.151
Pleurosigma angulatum (Quekett) Smith 181.52675 3006061.296
Rhoicosphenia abbreviata (Agardh) Lange-Bertalot 9348.70116 4766383.805
Sellaphora mutata (Krasske) Lange-Bertalot 726.11252 166995.03
Sellaphora pupula (Kützing) Meresckowsky 90.76338 51028.41495
Simonsenia delognei (Grunow) Lange-Bertalot 1452.22503 81463.95958
Surirella angusta Kützing 363.05534 398160.3562
Surirella spp. 181.52675 1665555.586
Tryblionella apiculata Gregory 181.52675 443048.0211
Tryblionella victoriae Grunow 181.52675 157046.3902
Cyanophyta
Aphanocapsa delicatissima West & West 257104.4373 553630.3586
Jaaginema subtilissima (Kützing) Anagnostidis & Komárek 56930.26825 1423256.706
Leptolyngbya ochracea (Thuret) Anagnostidis & Komárek 257104.4373 151852.018
Oscillatoria fremyii De Toni 130388.6789 182121.5113
Oscillatoria limnetica Lemmermann 139570.9802 4831441.851
Rhabdoderma lineare Schmidle & Lauterborn 7345.84106 257588.8955



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