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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 wall 22 μm long, 14 μm wide, L/W=1.6, inner cytoplasm 19 μm long, 6 μm wide, L/W=3.2, x 640, a small pond at Tsutsuji-ga-oka park, Tatebayashi city, Gunma Pref., Japan, February 18, 2006 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Vitreochlamys Vitreochlamys

Images of collecting locality: A small pond at Tsutsuji-ga-oka park, Tatebayashi city, Gunma Pref., Japan, February 18, 2006 by Y. Tsukii

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