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Table 1 Name and producer organism for the cyanotoxins

From: Cyanobacteria toxins in the Salton Sea

NAME

PRODUCED BY

Neurotoxins

Anatoxin-a Homo-Anatoxin-a

Anabaena, Aphanizomenon, Oscillatoria

Anatoxin-a(s)

Anabaena, Oscillatoria (Planktothrix)

Paralytic Shellfish Poisons (Saxitoxins)

Anabaena, Aphanizomenon, Cylindrospermopsis, Lyngbya

Liver Toxins

Cylindrospermopsin

Aphanizomenon, Cylindrospermopsis, Raphidiopsis, Umezakia

Microcystins

Anabaena, Aphanocapsa, Hapalosiphon, Microcystis, Nostoc, Oscillatoria, Planktothrix

Nodularins

Nodularia (brackish water)

Contact Irritant-Dermal Toxins

Debromoaplysiatoxin, Lyngbyatoxin

Lyngbya (marine)

Aplysiatoxin

Schizothrix (marine)

From Carmichael [28]