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Chlorophyceae: Chlorococcales: Oocystaceae

 Franceia sp.

Franceia Genus: Unicellular; planktonic; cell body oval or ellipsoidal, both ends rounded, covered with many elongated spiny-projections; one or 2-4 chloroplasts parietal plate-like with a single pyrenoid (Guide book to the "Photomicrographs of the Freshwater Algae", 1998).
Species:

Franceia sp., cell body ellipsoid, 13 μm in diam., hairy spines up to 11 μm long, hairy spines up to 10 μm long, x 400, x 640, Kawagoe, Saitama Pref., Japan, May 2001 by Y. Tsukii
scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400 : scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Franceia Franceia

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