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Chlorophyceae: Chlamydomonadales (Volvocales): Chlamydomonadaceae
Volvocida: Chlamydomonadina: Carteriidae

Vitreochlamys sphaerelloides
(Formerly Sphaerellopsis Korschikoff 1925)
Pascher 1929

Species: Cell body (outline of cellwall) broad ellipsoidal, both ends rounded; protoplast ellipsoidal or spindle-shaped; cellwall thin; length of flagella nearly the same as that of cell body; chloroplast cup-shaped; with a single pyrenoid; stigma absent; two contractile vacuoles apical (Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa 9, Chlorophyta I, 1983).


Vitreochlamys (Sphaerellopsis) sphaerelloides Pascher et Jahoda, 1928 or S. gloeocystiformis (Dill) Gerloff, 1940, cell body 15-18 μm long, 5.5-6.5 μm wide, x 640, Kamihira Park, Ageo city, Saitama Pref., Japan, March 2003 by Y. Tsukii
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