Species: Colonies of 8, 16 or 32 cells, spherical in shape, covered by a mucilaginous envelope; often held in multiple coenobia by the remains of mother cell walls; cells connected to adjacent ones by 5 - 7 long, slender processes; intercellular spaces large; cells up to 24 μm diam. (Photomicrographs of the Freshwater Algae, 1996).

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C. reticulatum, axenic x 640 colonies of 16 cells with 5, 6 arms Uruguay, 1999	C. reticulatum, axenic stock 37-2a-1 with 5, 6 arms Uruguay, 1999	C. reticulatum, axenic stock 37-2a-1 with 5, 6 arms Uruguay, 1999	C. reticulatum, axenic stock Ton-1, axenic Toneri Park Tokyo, 2001
C. reticulatum x 640 colonies of 16 cells with 5, 6 arms Tochigi, 2000	C. reticulatum stock Ton-1, axenic with 5, 6 arms Tochigi, 2000	C. reticulatum x 640 colonies of 32 cells with 5, 6 arms Saitama, 1999	C. reticulatum x 640 colonies of 32 cells with 5, 6 arms Tokyo, 2001
C. reticulatum x 640 colonies of 16 cells ? with 6 arms Gunma, 2001	C. reticulatum ? x 640 colonies of 32 cells with 5, 6 arms Uruguay, 1999	C. reticulatum μm with 5, 6 arms Sayama Natural p. Saitama, 2001	C. reticulatum stock Ssa-8 Sayama Natural p. Saitama, 2001
C. reticulatum colonies of cells with 5, 6 arms Otto-Numa Tsuchiura Ibaraki, 2002	C. reticulatum stock Ito-3 colony 50 μm φ cell 10 μm φ Otto-Numa Tsuchiura Ibaraki, 2002	C. reticulatum colony μm φ cell μm φ Omine-numa Tsukiyono Gunma, 2003	C. reticulatum colony 56, 80 μm φ cell μm φ Kabuto-yama Nishi-no-miya Hyogo, 2004
C. reticulatum colony 100 μm φ cell 22 μm φ riverside Abukuma river Fukushima, 2005	C. reticulatum colony 37 μm φ cell μm φ Yamaguchi Univ. Yamaguchi, 2004	C. reticulatum colony 45 μm φ Hasu-ike Shiga highland Nagano, 2005	C. reticulatum colony 46 μm φ Sayama park Higashi-Murayama Tokyo, 2006
C. reticulatum colony 30 μm φ Ohnuma Nasu-shiobara Tochigi, 2006	C. reticulatum colony μm φ drainage ditch Sakura Sakura, 2008

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