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Chlorophyceae: Chlorococcales: Micractiniaceae

 Golenkinia paucispina
W. et G. S. West

Golenkinia Genus: Unicellular, but autospore may become temporary colonical; planktonic; cell body spherical with many elongated spiny projections; a single chloroplast cup-shaped, with a single pyrenoid (Guide book to the "Photomicrographs of the Freshwater Algae", 1998).
Species: Vegetative cells spherical, 10-18 μm diam., with many short spines 15-20 μm long, 1 chloroplast cup-shaped, 1 pyrenoid (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).
Similar genus --> Franceia; Acanthosphaera; Micractinium; Errerella; Chodatella;

Golenkinia paucispina W. et G. S. West ?, cell body 15 μm in diam., hairly projections up to 20 μm long, x 640, Showa-machi general park, Showa town, Saitama Pref., Japan, February 12, 2006 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Golenkinia Golenkinia

Images of collecting locality: Showa-machi general park, Showa town, Saitama Pref., Japan, February 12, 2006 by Y. Tsukii

Golenkinia paucispina W. et G. S. West: Vegetative cells spherical, 10-18 μm diam., with many short spines 15-20 μm long, 1 chloroplast cup-shaped, 1 pyrenoid (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).

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