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Chlorophyceae: Chlorococcales: Oocystaceae

Monoraphidium griffithii
(Berkeley) Komárková-Legnerová

Monoraphidium Genus: Cell body elongated spindle in shape, straight or curved, sharply pointed at both ends; (Guide book to the "Photomicrographs of the Freshwater Algae", 1998).
Species: Cell body elongated fusiform, tapering toward sharply pointed ends, 40-68 μm long, 2 μm wide; two chloroplasts parietal, extending into the both ends, without pyrenoids; cell division produces 2, 4, 8 or 16 "autospores" (Photomicrographs of the Freshwater Algae, 1996).


Monoraphidium griffithii ?, vegetative cells 81 μm long, 4 μm diam., x 400, Japan, 1997 by Y. Tsukii
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Monoraphidium griffithii ?, x 400, by Y. Tsukii
scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400
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