Sighting 3364366
Mount Clear, ACT
Identification history
| Iron Bacteria | 11 Jan 2017 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Iron Bacteria | 7 Nov 2016 | KenT |
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User's notes
Found at the edge of a stream. Sheath-forming iron- and manganese-depositing bacteria possibly in the Sphaerotilus-Leptothrix group. Individual tubes to >640µm long and 1.3µm wide. To take the id any further requires some serious laboratory equipment and skills. For a recent reference to this group see Schmidt et al. 2014, FEMS Microbial Ecology 90: 454-466.
1 comment
MichaelMulvaney
wrote:
11 Jan 2017
Stephen Skinner of the NSW Herbarium said "I concur that it is bacterial...and there is more in the notes than I could have said. As far as I am aware, these iron bacterial patches are not any cause for worry, but in New Zealand all such things require to be reported and checked!
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.006000-35.858194
- Maps Namadgi National Park
- Places Mount Clear, ACT
Sighting information
- > 10,001 Abundance
- 3 Nov 2016 12:57 PM Recorded on
- KenT Recorded by
Species information
- Iron Bacteria Scientific name
- Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 592.86m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
