blue-green algae
From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Date: 2008
blue-green algae popular name for those microorganisms that are now more properly called cyanobacteria .
Author not available, BLUE-GREEN ALGAE.,
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&type=1 "AAP General News (Australia)")
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Vic: Blue-green algae warning for Murray River
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Fed: Blue-green algae hits Murray River
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&type=1 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
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