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Lyngbya (ling-bee-a) is a filamentous cyanobacteria usually have many cells joined together. They are often motile, gliding through the substrate. Probably the oldest recognizable organisms on Earth - traceable back to the earliest fossils, over 3 billion years old. Some are producers of toxins, some have nitrogen fixing abilities. etc. Phase contrast.
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- Life (biota)
- Cellular
- Bacteria (bacteria)
- Cyanobacteria (blue-green algae)
- Oscillatoriales
- Oscillatoriaceae
- Lyngbya
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