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Phycology Section
Patrick Center for Environmental Research

Algae collection site:
Loosahatchie River, Shelby Co, TN, US

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Loosahatchie River, Shelby Co, TN, US


   See lists of: 1 samples | 21 diatoms | 0 non-diatoms for this site.

   site code: LO3
   site_id: 17866
   NEON domain: not applicable
   state: Tennessee (TN)
Station 3 was located above the mouth of Big Creek. At a starting point at the center line of Highway 51 Bridge over the Loosahatchie River just southwest of the plant property follow the river approximately 7150 feet in a meandering direction to a bend in the river at a point northwest of the starting point. A small draw enters the river on the right bank from a northeasterly direction. Heavy clumps of willows extend from the beginning to the end of the bend. (1952 report.)
   latitude in decimal: 35.263633
   longitude in decimal: -90.004283
   waterbody type: stream / river
   ecoregion:
     Eastern Temperate Forests
       Southeastern USA Plains
         Mississippi Valley Loess Plains
   county: Shelby
   country: United States (US)

 
1 algae samples were collected at this site:
 
   sample LO10002 - General Multiple Habitats, collected 06/30  

 
21 diatom species found at this site:

   diatom, NADED ID 35004 - Frustulia rhomboides var. crassinervia (Brébisson ex Smith) Ross
   diatom, NADED ID 35011 - Frustulia vulgaris (Thwaites) De Toni
   diatom, NADED ID 37010 - Gomphonema parvulum (Kützing) Kützing
   diatom, NADED ID 38012 - Gyrosigma scalproides (Rabenhorst) Cleve
   diatom, NADED ID 38004 - Gyrosigma spencerii (Smith) Griffith et Henfrey
   diatom, NADED ID 44073 - Melosira varians Agardh
   diatom, NADED ID 46317 - Navicula canalis Patrick
   diatom, NADED ID 46115 - Navicula confervacea (Kützing) Grunow
   diatom, NADED ID 46014 - Navicula cryptocephala Kützing
   diatom, NADED ID 46034 - Navicula lanceolata (Agardh) Kützing
   diatom, NADED ID 46042 - Navicula mutica Kützing
   diatom, NADED ID 46388 - Navicula rhynchocephala var. germainii (Wallace) Patrick
   diatom, NADED ID 46400 - Navicula symmetrica Patrick
   diatom, NADED ID 48137 - Nitzschia clausii Hantzsch
   diatom, NADED ID 48008 - Nitzschia dissipata (Kützing) Grunow
   diatom, NADED ID 48159 - Nitzschia lorenziana var. subtilis Grunow
   diatom, NADED ID 48025 - Nitzschia palea (Kützing) Smith
   diatom, NADED ID 48227 - Nitzschia sp. 7 ANS JW
   diatom, NADED ID 48183 - Nitzschia tryblionella var. victoriae (Grunow) Grunow
   diatom, NADED ID 48186 - Nitzschia vermicularis (Kützing) Hantzsch
   diatom, NADED ID 65040 - Surirella tenera var. nervosa Schmidt
 
0 non-diatom species found at this site.



 


 
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