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Chrysophyceae: Ochromonadales: Chromulinaceae:
Chrysophyceae: Chromulinales: Chromulinaceae:

Chromulina glacialis
Skuja

Chromulina glacialis Genus: Body spherical or oval; one or two yellowish-brown chloroplasts (How to know the protozoa, 1779). Flagellate often becoming amoeboid or palmelloid; a single external flagellum emerging apically; second very short flagellum in a pocket detected when examined by electron microscopy; 1 or 2 chloroplasts; eyespot present in some species; cysts smooth or ornamented; many species with peripheral muciferous bodies; discobolocysts (a kind of extrusome) in some species; freshwater or marine (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
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Chromulina glacialis Skuja, cell body ovoidal 5-6 μm long, 4 μm wide, x 640, Mizumoto Park, Katsushika-ku, Tokyo, Japan, July 2001 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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Cysts, spherical in shape, 7 μm in diam.
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