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Chlorophyceae: Chlorococcales: Chlorococcaceae (Oocystaceae)

Tetraedron minimum
(A. Braun) Hansgirg var. minimum

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


Tetraedron minimum var. minimum, cell body 5 μm long, 5 μm wide, x 640, Uruguay 1999, photo by Y. Tsukii
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