North American Diatom Ecological Database - NADED
Phycology Section, Patrick Center for Environmental Research
Soft Algae Count Report
Water Body: Skykomish River Site Location ID: NRSA-FW08WA029 Sample Label:
Sample ID: NRSA0085 Client Sample ID: 527344.1
Date Sample Collected: 07/28/2008 Count Finished: 01/14/2009
Subsample ID: PR1 Slide Replicate ID: b Count Replicate ID: 1
Counted By: Babs Rinkel Sample Type:
Naded Type Taxon Name #Units Percent #Cells Percent Notes
249999 Unclassified (undifferentiated) (diatoms) 3689 78.28 3689 49.83
249998 Unclassified (undifferentiated) diatoms> (dead) 850 18.04 850 11.48
814002 Blue-Green Algae Calothrix sp. 2 0.04 56 0.75
295000 Green Algae Characium sp. 2 0.04 2 0.02
852004 Blue-Green Algae Homoeothrix (Tapinothrix) janthina (Bornet et Flahault) Starmach 23 0.48 341 4.60
852002 Blue-Green Algae Homoeothrix juliana (Meneghini) Kirchner 30 0.63 726 9.80
455000 Green Algae Oedogonium sp. 4 0.08 36 0.48
890039 Blue-Green Algae Phormidium chalybeum (Mertens ex Gomont) Anagnostidis et Komárek 5 0.10 60 0.81
890047 Blue-Green Algae Phormidium granulatum (Gardner) Anagnostidis 1 0.02 16 0.21
890025 Blue-Green Algae Phormidium sp. 28 0.59 465 6.28
897008 Blue-Green Algae Pseudanabaena sp. 1 NRSA 34 0.72 434 5.86
543002 Green Algae Stigeoclonium sp. 2 0.04 10 0.13
569001 Green Algae Ulothrix zonata (Weber et Mohr) Kützing 13 0.27 163 2.20
948009 Blue-Green Algae Unknown Cyanophyte filament 22 0.46 516 6.97
1599006 Red Algae Unknown Rhodophyte Florideophycidae (chantransia) 7 0.14 38 0.51
Report Date: 3/21/2023 Total Number of Taxa: 15 Total Natural Units: 4712
Total Number of Cells: 7402
Count Notes:
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Comments: 300 ncunits reached 36 mm
total transect length 471 mm
lugols light but visible; silt levels meant dilution required
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Comments: NRSA data prep
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Comments: Diatoms multiplied up per Babs Rinkel request Apr 2010
Taxa Notes:
None.
Counts version 3.3 - last revision 2/16/2021
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