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

 Chloromonas tenebraria
(Skuja) Gerloff et Ettl in Ettl 1970

Chloromonas tenebraria Species: Mature cell body spherical or ellipsoidal, 12-15 μm in diam.; young cell body ellipsoidal or cylindrical, 8-13 μm long, 4-7 μm wide; rounded papilla present; chloroplast cup-shaped, with a large concave; stigma rounded, located anterior 1/4 of the cell body; nucleus centrally located (Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa 9, Chlorophyta I, 1983).

Chloromonas tenebraria (Skuja) Gerloff et Ettl (or C. coccinella Gerloff 1962 ?), a comtaminant found in a Amoeba proteus culture dish, cell body spherical, 13-17 μm in diam., papilla present, stigma anterior half of the cell, x 400, x 640, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan, May 2001 by Y. Tsukii
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Chloromonas sp., cell body μm long, μm wide, x 640, Tokyo, 2001 by Y. Tsukii
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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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