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

 Mallomonas minuta
Villeret

Mallomonas Genus: Body elongated; with silicious scales and often spines; two chloroplasts rod-shaped (Kudo, 1966).
Species: Cell body 16-25 μm long, 9-15 μm wide (or 10-13 μm long, 7-10 μm wide ?) (Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa 1, Chrysophyceae und Haptophyceae, 1985).

Mallomonas minuta Villeret (large variety ? or Mallomonas punctifera Korshikov 1941), cell body 30 μm long, 12 μm wide, x 640, Sannoh-bori at Sannoh Park, Saitama city, Saitama Pref., Japan, January 9, 2005 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Mallomonas Mallomonas
Cell body 30 μm long, 11 μm wide, x 640
Mallomonas Mallomonas
Cell body 21 μm long, 10 μm wide, x 640
Mallomonas Mallomonas Mallomonas
Cell body 18 μm long, 11 μm wide, x 640
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