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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, cell wall up to 25 μm long, 17 μm wide, L/W=1.5, inner cytoplasm 17 μm long, 12 μm wide, L/W=1.4, x 640, drainage ditch, Kami-omino, Kawajima (Kawashima) town, Saitama Pref., February 25, 2006 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Vitreochlamys Vitreochlamys
Cell wall 19 μm long, 15 μm wide, L/W=1.3, inner cytoplasm 14 μm long, 10 μm wide, L/W=1.4, x 640
Vitreochlamys
Cell wall 29 μm long, 27 μm wide, L/W=1.1, inner cytoplasm 20 μm long, 16 μm wide, L/W=1.3, x 640
Vitreochlamys
Daughter cells, cell wall 18 μm long, 13 μm wide, L/W=1.4, inner cytoplasm 15 μm long, 9.5 μm wide, L/W=1.6, x 640
Vitreochlamys Vitreochlamys

Images of collecting locality: Drainage ditch, Kami-omino, Kawajima (Kawashima) town, Saitama Pref., February 25, 2006 by Y. Tsukii

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