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Chlorophyceae: Chlorococcales: Oocystaceae

 Monoraphidium sp.

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:
Similar species -->> Ankistrodesmus densus;

Monoraphidium sp., cell body (left) 72 μm long, 4 μm wide, L/W=18, cell bodies (right) 60-92 μm long, 2 μm wide, L/W=30-46, x 640, Jionji-shinsui-koen (Jion temple water park), Iwatsuki-ku (formerly Iwatsuki city), Saitama city, Saitama Pref., Japan, February 12, 2006 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Monoraphidium Monoraphidium

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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