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

 Synura uvella
Ehrenberg 1838 (???)
Ehrenberg emend. Korsikov (Starmach 1985)
Ehrenberg 1835 emend. F. Stein 1878 (John et al. eds. 2002)

Synura uvella spinosa Genus: Spherical or ellipsoidal colony composed of 2-50 ovoid cells arranged radially; cell body usually covered by short bristles; two chloroplasts lateral; no stigma; longitudinal cell division; fresh water (Kudo, 1966).
Species: Cells oval; bristles conspicuous; 20-40 μm long, 8-17 μm wide (Kudo, 1966).

Synura uvella (or S. spinosa ?), cell body 22 μm long, 8 μm wide, x 400, Japan, 1998 by Y. Tsukii
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Synura sp. ?, x 400, by Y. Tsukii
scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400
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