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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 58 μm long, 18 μm wide, x 640, Mitsumata-numa biotope, at the border of Kawagoe city, Kawajima town and Ageo city, Saitama Pref., Japan, March 21, 2005 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Mallomonas mesolepis Mallomonas mesolepis
Cell body 80 μm long, 18 μm wide, x 640
Mallomonas mesolepis Mallomonas mesolepis Mallomonas mesolepis Mallomonas mesolepis
Cell body μm long, μm wide, x 640
Mallomonas mesolepis Mallomonas mesolepis Mallomonas mesolepis Mallomonas mesolepis

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