Table 1

Name and producer organism for the cyanotoxins

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]

Carmichael and Li Saline Systems 2006 2:5   doi:10.1186/1746-1448-2-5