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Chlorophyta: Gamophyceae: Desmidales: Mesotaeniaceae
Netrium digitus
(Ehrenberg) Itzigsohn & Rothe var. naegelii (Brébisson) Krieger
Genus:
Cell body usuall large, spindle or cylindroid in shape, rounded at both ends;
two chloroplasts star-shaped at cross-section, consisting of a central rod and radially
arranged dented laminae
(Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).
Species: Cell body 272-416 μm long,
42-59 μm wide, L/W = 5-8;
cell wall smooth (Photomicrographs of the Fresh-water Algae, 1984).
Netrium digitus var. naegelii (Brébisson) Krieger,
tape No. 0123, time code 1133,
cell body s282 μm long, 56 μm wide, L/W = 5.0,
x 200, x 400, x 640, Hiroshima Pref., Japan, October 1998, by Y. Tsukii
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