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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 elegans, cell body 5 μm long, 3.5 μm wide, x 640, Naga-ike (pond), Shinbaru, Sue-machi (Sue town), Fukuoka Pref., Japan, October 2001 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Dictyosphaerium elegans Dictyosphaerium elegans


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