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Table 1: Toxic cyanobacterial genera with types of toxins produced from different countries.

Country Toxic Species Cyanotoxin Authors

Australia A . circinalis

Aph . ovalisporum
M . fl os - aquae
N . spumigena
Aphanothece sp., Microcystis sp.
Microcystis sp., Anabaena , sp.,
Aphanizomenon sp., Nodularia sp.
Nodularia spumigena

STXs
Cylindrospermopsin
Microcystins
Nodularins
Microcystins
Microcystins
Nodularins
Nodularins

Carmichael (1992); Humpage et al . (1994)
Humpage et al . (1994); Negri et al . (1995,
1997); Banker et al . (1997)
Baker and Humpage (1994); Jones et al .
(1994)
Dasey et al . (2005)
Kemp and John (2006)

Jones et al . (2006)

Belgium M. aeruginosa

Microcystis sp., Planktothrix sp.,
Woronichinia sp., Aphanizomenon sp.

Microcystins
Microcystins

Wirsing et al . (1998)
Williame et al . (2005)

Brazil Microcystis sp., Anabaena sp.

C . raciborskii
Microcystis sp.

Microcystins
Saxitoxins
Microcystins

Jochimsen et al . (1998); Pouria
et al . (1998); Lagos et al . (1999);
Hirooka et al . (1999); Matthiensen et
al. (2000)

Costa et al . (2006)

M . panniformis , M . protocystis ,
M . novacekii, Aph . gracile , Aph . cf.
manguinii , Aph . cf. issastschenkoi
C . raciborskii
Aphanocapsa cumulus

Microcystins

STX
Microcystins

Canada Anabaena fl os - aquae Anatoxin-a Carmichael et al . (1975); Devlin et

al . (1977) Matsunaga et al . (1989);
Mahmood and Carmichael (1987)
Krishnamurthy et al . (1986); Harada et
al . (1991a)
Hrudey et al . (1994, 1999); Zurawell et
al . (1999)
Gupta et al . (2001)
Giani et al . (2005); Rolland et al . (2005)

Anatoxin-a(s)
Microcystins

Anabaena sp., Aphanizomenon sp.,
Microcystis sp., Oscillatoria sp.,
M . aeruginosa
Microcystis sp., Anabaena sp.

Microcystins
Microcystins

China Anabaena spp., Oscillatoria spp. Microcystins Xu et al . (2000)

Czech
Republic

Microcystis spp., P . agardhii , Aph .
fl os-aquae
Microcystis spp.

Microcystins Marsalek et al . (2001)

Znachor et al . (2006)

Microcystins

Denmark A . lammermannii

M . botrys
P . agardhii , P. mougeotii
Anabaena spp., P . agardhii , Aph .
fl os - aquae
M . aeruginosa

Anatoxin-a(s)
Microcystins
Microcystins
Microcystins

Henriksen et al . (1997); Onodera et al .
(1997)
Henriksen et al . (1996)
Henriksen (2001)

Albay et al . (2003, 2005)

Microcystins

Oscillatoria tenuis

Egypt Microcystins Brittain et al . (2000)

England Nostoc sp. Microcystins Beattie et al . (1998)

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