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Gamophyceae: Desmidales: Desmidiaceae
(Charophyceae: Zygnematales: Desmidiaceae)

Micrasterias crux-melitensis
(Ehrenberg) Hassall ex Ralfs 1848

Genus: Cell body flat, large, variable in shape, longer than wide; strong constriction at center; each semicell with several notches; cell wall with many short spines (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).
Species: 102-129 μm long, 84-124 μm wide (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).
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Micrasterias
M. crux-melitensis
v. crux-melintensis
188 x 150 μm
Hiroshima, 1998
Movies
Micrasterias
M. crux-melitensis
v. crux-melintensis
or M. radiata ?
141 x 119 μm
USA, 1999
Micrasterias crux-melitensis
M. crux-melitensis
v. crux-melitensis
125 x 98 μm
Higashi-sano
Hakuba
Nagano, 2004
Micrasterias crux-melitensis
M. crux-melitensis
v. crux-melitensis
118 x 90 μm
100 x 87 μm
near Oyomi marsh
Hakuba
Nagano, 2004
Micrasterias
M. crux-melitensis
v. crux-melitensis
115 x 100 μm
Toneri Park
Tokyo, 2001
Micrasterias
M. crux-melitensis
v. crux-melitensis
86 x 86 μm
Kuroiso
Tochigi, 1998
Movies
Micrasterias crux-melitensis
M. crux-melitensis
v. crux-melitensis
140 x 108 μm
136 x 109 μm
Yamaguchi Univ.
Yamaguchi, 2004
Micrasterias crux-melitensis
M. crux-melitensis
v. crux-melitensis
160* x 120 μm
Furuike marsh
Togakushi highland
Nagano, 2006
Micrasterias crux-melitensis
M. crux-melitensis
v. crux-melitensis
130 x 108 μm
Higusa-numa
Hikari
Chiba, 2006
Micrasterias
M. crux-melitensis
v. superflua
151 x 131 μm
Uruguay, 1999
Micrasterias
M. crux-melitensis
v. superflua
119 x 109 μm
Toneri Park
Tokyo, 2001
Micrasterias
M. crux-melitensis
stock ???
cell division
Toneri Park
Tokyo, 2001
Micrasterias crux-melitensis
M. crux-melitensis
v. superflua
114 x 105 μm
Sendabori
Chiba, 2002
Micrasterias
M. crux-melitensis
v. superflua
stock Hsf-51
μm
Sanda
Hyogo, 2001

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Micrasterias crux-melitensis
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