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

Chlamydomonas mutabilis
Gerloff 1940

Chlamydomonas mutabilis Species: Cell body elongated ellipsoidal, 17-25 μm long, 7.5-15 μm wide; papilla present, conical or broad conical; chloroplast cup-shaped, with posterior inner cavity; a pyrenoid centrally located; stigma longitudinally elongated, located at anterior half of the cell surface; nucleus anterior (Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa 9, Chlorophyta I, 1983).


Chlamydomonas mutabilis Gerloff ??, cell body 21 μm long, 18 μm wide, x 640, Tama river, Chofu city, Tokyo, Japan, February 24, 2004 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Chlamydomonas Chlamydomonas Chlamydomonas

Chloromonas maculata Korschikoff (Syn: Chamydomonas korschkoffii Pascher): Cell body spherical, 15-26 μm in diam.; 2 flagella approximately equal to cell-body length; papilla small, flat in shape; many chloroplast small plate-like, without pyrenoids; stigma elliptical; 2 contractile vacuoles at the base of flagella; nucleus located at the center of the cell body (Photomicrographs of the Freshwater Algae, vol. 17, 1996).


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