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Chlorophyceae: Chlorococcales: Oocystaceae

 Eremosphaera sp.

Eremosphaera Family: Unicells or colonies of non-fixed number of cells; cell body variable in shape; one or more chloroplasts variable in shape; a sexual reproduction by autospore (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).
Genus: (Guide book to the "Photomicrographs of the Freshwater Algae", 1998).
Species:

Eremosphaera (or Neospongiococcum ?), cell body μm long, μm wide, x 640, Shimo-akaiwa, Matsubushi town, Saitama Pref., Japan, March 2003 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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Eremosphaera viridis De Bary: Unicells; cell body spherical, 70-200 μm in diam.; many chloroplasts disc-shaped, located at periphery of the cell (Illustrations of the Japanese fresh-water algae, 1977).

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