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

Chloromonas vulgaris
(Anachin) Gerloff et Ettl in Ettl 1970

Chloromonas vulgaris Species: Cell body broad ellipsoidal, 22-28.5 μm long, 18.5-24 μm wide; a small and broad papillae present; length of flagella nearly the same as that of cell body; chloroplast cup-shaped, filling whole cell body; stigma bar-shaped, located at equator or slightly anterior; nucleus centrally located (or slightly anterior ?) (Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa 9, Chlorophyta I, 1983).


Chloromonas vulgaris small variety ?, cell body 14 μm long, 8.5-11 μm wide, x 640, Near railway station, Kami, Shiraoka town, Saitama Pref., Japan, April 2003 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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