Phormidium

Japanese: Phormidium
Phormidium

...The cell filaments have the property of violently swaying, which is where the Japanese name comes from, and the scientific name also means "swaying." The similar blue-green algae Spirulina is distinguished by its spirally wound cell filaments, Phormidium by its mucilaginous sheath around the cell filaments, and Lyngbya by its hard sheath. The body of Trichodesmium, which grows in the sea and sometimes proliferates in large numbers, causing red tides, is made up of many entangled cell filaments with the same structure as Oscillaria.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Phormidium" are listed below.

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Japanese:

…細胞糸ははげしくゆれ運動をする性質があり,和名はこのことに由来し,学名も〈振れ動く〉の意である。似た藍藻スピルリナは細胞糸がらせん状に巻くことで,フォルミディウムPhormidiumは細胞糸の周囲に粘質物の鞘をもつこと,リングビアLyngbyaは固い鞘をもつことで,それぞれ区別される。海に生育し,ときどき大繁殖して赤潮を起こすトリコデスミウムの体はユレモと同一構造の細胞糸が多数からみ合ってできている。…

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