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Chlorophyceae: Chlamydomonadales (Volvocales): Chlamydomonadaceae
Volvocida: Chlamydomonadina: Chlamydomonadidae
Gloeomonas tecta
(Skuja) Ettl H. et O. 1959
Syn. Chlamydomonas tecta Skuja 1956
Species:
Cell body broad ellipsoidal, cylindrical, or inverted ovoid, both ends rounded,
20-32 μm long, 13-27 μm wide; cellwall thick;
covered by two layers of gelatinous sheaths; papilla broad, short, rounded at corners;
length of flagella nearly the same as that of cell body; chloroplast cup-shaped, filling whole cell;
stigma rounded, at equator or slightly anterior; nucleus centrally located; two apical contractile
vacuoles at the base of flagella.
[var. subporosa (Skuja) Ettl 1993]:
Cell body larger (26-28 x 25-32 μm); inner cellwall finely porous; sexual reproduction by heterogamy
(Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa 9, Chlorophyta I, 1983).
Gloeomonas tecta (Skuja) Ettl H. et O. 1959 ?,
tape No. 0129, time code 0432,
Handa numa (pond), Ohtawara city, Tochigi Pref., Japan, January 5, 1999 by Y. Tsukii
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