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

Vitreochlamys aulata
(Formerly Sphaerellopsis Korschikoff 1925)
(Pascher) Gerloff 1940
Syn.: Chlamydomonas aulata Pascher 1927

Vitreochlamys Species: Cell body (cellwall) broad ellipsoidal or inverted ovoid or spherical, 15-38 μm long, 10-30 μm wide cellwall thin; papilla absent; protoplast broad ovoid; length of flagella same as that of cell body; chloroplast cup-shaped, anterior half striated; a large pyrenoid located at posterior; stigma circular or elliptical, located at equator; nucleus at the center of the cell; two contractile vacuoles apical; other tree or four vacuoles also present (Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa 9, Chlorophyta I, 1983).


Vitreochlamys aulata (Pascher) Gerloff 1940 ? (or Chlamydomonas ?), cell wall 23 μm long, 21 μm wide, cytoplasm 17 μm long, 15 μm wide, x 640, Kamigo ni-ku, Kaminokawa town, Tochigi Pref., Japan, April 1, 2006 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Vitreochlamys Vitreochlamys Vitreochlamys
Cell wall 23 μm long, 15 μm wide, cytoplasm 21 μm long, 15 μm wide, flagella 35 μm long, stigma located at the half of the cell body,
Chlamydomonas Chlamydomonas Chlamydomonas Chlamydomonas
Matured cell body 25 μm long, 23 μm wide,
Chlamydomonas Chlamydomonas Chlamydomonas Chlamydomonas Chlamydomonas Chlamydomonas Chlamydomonas

Images of collecting locality: Kamigo ni-ku, Kaminokawa town, Tochigi Pref., Japan, April 1, 2006 by Y. Tsukii


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