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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, cell body 93 μm long, 3 μm wide, L/W=31, x 640, Komyo (near bus stop), Komyo-Shinden, Yoshimi town, Saitama Pref., Japan, April 2003 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Monoraphidium griffithii Monoraphidium griffithii


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