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Chrysophyceae: Mallomonadales (or Ochromonadales): Synuraceae
Crysomonadea: Chromulinida

 Mallomonas mesolepis
Skuja

Mallomonas mesolepis Genus: Body elongated; with silicious scales and often spines; two chloroplasts rod-shaped (Kudo, 1966).
Species: Cell body spindle-shaped, 65-74 μm long, 16-17.5 μm wide; scales rhomboid (6-7 x 4 μm) (Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa 1, Chrysophyceae und Haptophyceae, 1985).

Mallomonas mesolepis Skuja (similar to M. insignis Penard and M. pulcherrima (Stokes) Lemmermann), cell body 60 μm long, 17 μm wide, x 640, Kenmin-kenko-fukushi-mura Park, Koshigaya city, Saitama Pref., Japan, January 29, 2005 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Mallomonas mesolepis Mallomonas mesolepis Mallomonas mesolepis
Cell body μm long, μm wide, x 640
Mallomonas mesolepis Mallomonas mesolepis
Cell body μm long, μm wide, x 640
Mallomonas mesolepis Mallomonas mesolepis Mallomonas mesolepis
Cell body μm long, μm wide, x 640
Mallomonas mesolepis
Cell body 65 μm long, 16 μm wide, x 640
Mallomonas mesolepis Mallomonas mesolepis Mallomonas mesolepis Mallomonas mesolepis
Cell body μm long, μm wide, x 640
Mallomonas mesolepis Mallomonas mesolepis
Cell body μm long, μm wide, x 640
Mallomonas mesolepis Mallomonas mesolepis

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