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Chlorophyceae: Chlorococcales: Dictyosphaeriaceae

Dictyosphaerium elegans
Bachmann

Dictyosphaerium elegans Genus: Cells are equal in size (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977). Planktonic; colony within a gelatinous sheath; cell body spherical, elliptical or pear-shaped; 4 daughter cells attached to a filament dichotomously radiating from the center of the colony; a single chloroplast cup-shaped, with a pyrenoid.
Species:
Similar genus -->> Planktosphaeria; Westella;


Dictyosphaerium, cell body pear-shaped, 6 μm long, 4 μm wide, x 400, x 640, Uruguay, November 1999, photo by Yuuji Tsukii
scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400 : scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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