Preliminary List of Microscopic Life in 
Fresh Water Pools Around 
Laguna Beach 
I. 
Algae 
A. Blue-green 
1. Oscillatoria: found in 
Algae Pool 
Smallest Laguna Lake 
Largest Laguna Lake 
2. Spirulina 
Smallest Laguna Lake 
Largest Laguna Lake 
Algae Pool 
Laguna Canyon Pool 
3. Nostoc 
Smallest Laguna Pool 
Algae Pool 
Laguna Canyon Pool 
4. Nodularia 
Laguna Slough 
5. Phormidium 
Smallest Laguna Lake 
B. Green 
1. Cladophora 
Salt Spring 
2. Synedra 
Laguna Canyon 
Smallest Laguna Lake 
3. Ankistrodesmus 
Algae Pool 
Laguna Slough 
4. Spirogyra 
Laguna Canyon Pool 
Laguna Slough 
Smaller Laguna Lake 
5. Scenedesmus 
Largest Laguna Lake 
6. Navicula 
Laguna Canyon 
Algae Pool 
Salt Spring 
Sulphur Spring 
Smallest L. Lake 
Ill. 
7. Amphora 
Algae Pool 
8. Cymbella 
Sulphur Spring 
Smallest Laguna Lake 
Largest Laguna Lake 
9. Pinnularia 
Smallest Laguna Lake 
Salt Spring 
10. Gomphonema 
Smallest Laguna Lake 
11. Closterium 
Smallest Laguna Lake 
12. Pleurosigma 
Smallest Laguna Lake 
13. Epithemia 
Smallest Laguna Lake 
Protozoa 
Amoeboid 
1. Amoeba 
Algae Pool 
2. Nuclearia 
Salt Spring 
Flagellate 
1. Euglena spirogyra 
Smallest Laguna Lake 
2. Euglena sp. 
Laguna Canyon 
Laguna Slough 
3. Phacus longicaudis 
Smallest Laguna Lake 
Laguna Canyon 
Ciliate 
1. Gonium 
Smallest Laguna Lake 
1. Flexiphyllum 
Smallest Laguna Lake 
3. Condylostoma 
Smallest Laguna Lake 
Largest Laguna Lake 
