Genus: Cell body short, radiate in shape; apical view of the cell, triangular, polygonal, ellipsoidal or spindle-shaped; zygospores formed outside of mother cells (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).
Species: Unicellular, planktonic; cell body flat, quadrangular in shape, four sides depressed and four corners with small papillae; a single chloroplast plate-like, with a pyrenoid (Guide book to the "Photomicrographs of the Freshwater Algae", 1998).

T. minimum dividing cells 9 x 8.5 μm Ishikawa, 2000	T. minimum dividing cells 8, 10 μm Ishikawa, 2000	T. minimum stock Ikk-41 axenic culture 5, 8 μm Ishikawa, 2000
T. minimum 6 x 5.5 μm Japan, 2000	T. minimum 5 x 5 μm Uruguay, 1999	T. minimum 9, 12 μm Tokyo, 2001	T. minimum μm Kazo Saitama, 2003
T. minimum μm Ushijima park Kasukabe Saitama, 2003

Similar genus -->> Tetraedriella (Xanthophyceae); Goniochloris (Xanthophyceae);

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