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Chlorophyceae: Oedogoniales: Oedogoniaceae

Oedogonium sp.

Oedogonium Order & Family: Filamentous algae; cell division occurs near septum and adds "apical cap" (folded structure near the septum) ; cell body cylindrical, laterally straight or wavy or swell at one end of the cell body ("capitellate") in some species; chloroplasts reticulated with many pyrenoids; asexual reproduction by zoospore; sexual reproduction by fertilization by egg and sperm; monoecious or dioecious.
Genus: linear filament without branching (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).

Species:
Similar Genus ->> Oedocladium


Oedogonium sp. ??, vegetative cells 63 μm long, 19 μm diam., x 100, x 200, x 400, Uruguay 1999, photo by Y. Tsukii
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