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Chlorophyta: Chlorophyceae: Volvocales: Volvocaceae

Pandorina
Bory, 1824

Family: Colonies consisting of a fixed number of cells (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).
Genus: Colony spherical; 8-16 cells of similar size, close together, mutually compressed; 2-layered gelatinous envelope; cells with 2 equal-length flagella; 2 contractile vacuoles anterior; nucleus central (Illustrated Guide, 1985).

P. morum ?
8 clips
dividing cells
col. 30 x 25 μm
Binnuma River
Omiya
Saitama, 2000

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Pandorina morum
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