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

Vitreochlamys fluviatilis
(Formerly Sphaerellopsis Korschikoff 1925)
(Stein) Pascher 1927

Vitreochlamys Species: Cell body (cellwall) ellipsoidal or ovoid, rarely inverted ovoid, 14-30 μm long, 10-20 μm wide; protoplast elongated ovoid, ellipsoidal, or broad spindle-shaped, tapered to anterior end, posterior end rounded or tapered or tail-like; length of flagella equal to that of cell body; chloroplast cup-shaped; a pyrenoid located at posterior half of the cell; stigma anterior; nucleus centrally located; two contractile vacoules (Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa 9, Chlorophyta I, 1983).

Vitreochlamys fluviatilis (Stein) Pascher 1927 ?, cell body 15 μm long, 9 μm wide, 2 equal-length flagella, a large chlroplast, anterior papilla, x 400, x 640, Shinobazu-ike (pond), Ueno, Taito-ku, Tokyo, Japan, March 2001 by Y. Tsukii
scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400 : scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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