
Didymosphenia geminata - Wikipedia
Didymosphenia geminata, commonly known as didymo or rock snot, is a species of diatom that produces nuisance growths in freshwater rivers and streams with consistently cold water …
Invasive Species: Didymo or "Rock Snot" - U.S. National Park Service
Didymo (Didymosphenia geminata) is a type of invasive algae that attaches to plants, rocks, and other hard substrates in rivers and streams. Also called “rock snot” due to its slimy …
Didymo | National Invasive Species Information Center
Also known as rock snot despite its coarse, woolly texture, didymo can grow into thick mats that cover the river bottom. The Manistee River finding marks the first detection of didymo blooms …
Didymo (or Rock Snot) - Center for Invasive Species Research
The Situation: Didymo or rock snot, is a highly invasive species of freshwater diatom that can form large and extensive mats in rivers, streams, and lakes. Didymo is native to cool temperate …
Invasive Species: Didymo (Rock Snot) - State of Michigan
Didymo (also known as "rock snot") is a microscopic algae (diatom) that produces stalks that form thick mats on hard surfaces like rocks in stream beds. It looks and feels like white or tan/brown …
"Rock Snot" Has Been Native to Much of the World for Thousands of Years
May 8, 2014 · A type of freshwater algae, known as "rock snot," that infiltrates river bottoms and clumps on rocks is not an invasive species introduced into waterways by humans, a new study …
Protect Park Streams from Rock Snot - U.S. National Park Service
Jan 7, 2020 · Didymo (Didymosphenia geminata) or "rock snot" is an invasive single-celled algae species that smothers stream and riverbeds with mats of algae up to 8 inches thick. …
Didymosphenia geminata | Species - Diatoms of North America
Didymosphenia geminata is known by the common name, 'didymo'. It attaches by a mucopolysaccaride stalk to benthic substrates in flowing waters and splash zones of lakes. In …
didymo (Didymosphenia geminata) - Species Profile
Extracellular stalks that form nuisance blooms are secreted from the raphe (Spaulding and Elwell 2007). While microscopic, Didymosphenia geminata forms dense mats of extracellular stalks …
didymo, rock snot: Didymosphenia geminata (Cymbellales: …
Didymosphenia geminata has the texture of wet wool or cotton, fibrous not slimy or slippery and is not easy to pull apart. It can reproduce asexually, resulting in large mats. It is able to spread …