A strain of this benthic species was isolated from a drinking water reservoir in Pernambuco State, Brazil and found to produce the saxitoxin variant GTX1 (Borges et al. 2015). Cells were identified by both morphological and 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>