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Chlorophyceae: Chlamydomonadales (Volvocales): Chlamydomonadaceae
Volvocida: Chlamydomonadina: Chlamydomonadidae

Chlamydomonas peterfii
Gerloff 1940
C. pascheri Péterfi 1939 non C. pascherii Dangeard 1929

Chlamydomonas peterfii Species: Cell body ellipsoidal or slightly ovoid, 10-15 μm long, 5-10.5 μm wide; young daughter cells slightly asymmetrical; cellwall thin; papilla absent; length of flagella nearly the same as that of cell body; chloroplast cup-shaped; a pyrenoid central-lateral or at posterior half of the cell; stigma at equator or anterior; nucleus centrally located or slightly anterior (Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa 9, Chlorophyta I, 1983).


Chlamydomonas peterfii Gerloff (or C. moewusii ?), cell body 23 μm long, 16 μm wide, a large pyrenoid central-lateral, two contractile vacuoles at the base of flagella, nucleus centrally located, papilla absent ?, x 640, rice field, Shimo-muneoka, Shiki city, Saitama Pref., Japan, October 24, 2004 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Chlamydomonas Chlamydomonas Chlamydomonas Chlamydomonas


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