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Chlorophyceae: Chlorococcales: Oocystaceae

Monoraphidium lunare
Nygaard, Komárek, Kristiansen & Skulberg

Monoraphidium lunare 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 spindle-shaped, moderately curved, with blunt ends, 8-17 μm long, 1.5-3.5 μm wide; a chloroplast parietal with a naked pyrenoid (invisible under photomicroscope); cell division produces 4 or 8 "autospores" (Photomicrographs of the Freshwater Algae, 1997).


Monoraphidium lunare ?, cell body μm long, μm wide, x 640, Moroyama town, Saitama Pref., Japan, April 2003 by Y. Tsukii
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Monoraphidium litorale Hindak: Cells singular, fusiform, often attached to a subtrate or to mother cell wall remnant with one end by means of a mucous target; 22-43 micron long, 2-6 micron wide; a chloroplast pariental, trough-shaped, with a naked pyrenoid (without starch-envelope); cell division produces 4, 8 or 16 autospores (daughter cells) releasing by crosswise rupture of mother cell wall (Phtomicrog. Freshw. Alg. 16: 56, 1996)


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