Gonium Gonium

Chlorophyceae: Volvocales: Volvocaceae
Volvocica: Volvocina: Goniidae

Gonium formosum
Pascher 1927

Gonium Species: Colonies of 16 cells arranged with equal distances; interspace present between gelatinous coats of the cells; cell body ovoid or ellipsoid in shape, 10-13 μm in diam.; chloroplast with a single pyrenoid (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).


Gonium formosum Pascher, cell body μm long, μm wide, L/W=, x 640, Old Sugata river, Yasuzuka, Mibu town, Tochigi Pref., Japan, May 5, 2008 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Gonium formosum Gonium formosum Gonium formosum

Images of collecting locality: Old Sugata river, Yasuzuka, Mibu town, Tochigi Pref., Japan, May 5, 2008 by Y. Tsukii


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