Table 4. Relative abundance of cells and rank by biovolume of 

 diatoms and genera of non-diatom algae in periphyton 

 samples collected from Mizpah Creek in August 2000. 



Taxa 



Relative Abundance and (Rank) 

 UMC-1 LMC-7 



Chlorophyta (green algae) 

 Monos troma 

 Oedogonium 

 Stigeoclonium 



abundant ( 2 ) 



occasional (7] 



common ( 5 ) 



Euglenophyta (euglenoid algae) 

 Euglena 



rare (10) 



Chrysophyta (golden algae) 

 Bacillariophyceae 

 TriJbone/na 



common ( 1 ) 

 occasional (5) 



abundant {!] 



Cyanophyta (cyanobacteria) ^ 

 Anajbaena 

 i\7odu2aria 

 Nostoc 

 Oscillatoria 

 Phormidium 

 Spirulina 



occasional (4) 



occasional (3) 



common ( 2 ) 



occasional (8) 

 common (6) 



common (4) 



frequent (3) 



occasional (9) 



^ Formerly known as blue-green algae 



