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Chlorophyceae: Chlamydomonadales (Volvocales): Chlamydomonadaceae
Volvocida: Chlamydomonadina: Chlamydomonadidae

Gloeomonas tecta
(Skuja) Ettl H. et O. 1959
Syn. Chlamydomonas tecta Skuja 1956

Gloeomonas Species: Cell body broad ellipsoidal, cylindrical, or inverted ovoid, both ends rounded, 20-32 μm long, 13-27 μm wide; cellwall thick; covered by two layers of gelatinous sheaths; papilla broad, short, rounded at corners; length of flagella nearly the same as that of cell body; chloroplast cup-shaped, filling whole cell; stigma rounded, at equator or slightly anterior; nucleus centrally located; two apical contractile vacuoles at the base of flagella.
[var. subporosa (Skuja) Ettl 1993]: Cell body larger (26-28 x 25-32 μm); inner cellwall finely porous; sexual reproduction by heterogamy (Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa 9, Chlorophyta I, 1983).


Gloeomonas tecta (Skuja) Ettl H. et O. 1959 ?, cell body covered with double-layered gelatinous sheath, large cell body 29 μm long, 27 μm wide (including gelatinous sheath), a nucleus centrally located, stigma ellipsoidal, located anterior, x 640, wetland, near Town Hall, Shobu town, Saitama Pref., Japan, June 27, 2004 by Y. Tsukii
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