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Strains of this benthic species have been isolated from a drinking water reservoir in Brazil (State of Pernambuco) and found to produce four different variants of the saxitoxin complex (Borges et al. 2015). The strains were identified by morphological as well as molecular methods

Borges, H.L.F., Branco, L.H.Z., Martins, M.D., Lima, C.S., Barbosa, P.T., Lira, G.A.S.T., Bittencourt-Oliveira, M.C. & Molica, R.J.R. (2015). Cyanotoxin production and phylogeny of benthic cyanobacterial strains isolated from the northeast of Brazil. <em>Harmful Algae 43: 46-57.</em>