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Chlorophyceae: Tetrasporales: Gloeococcaceae
Chlamydophyceae: Tetrasporales: Palmellopsidaceae (Palmellaceae)

Asterococcus superbus
(Cienkowski, 1865) Scherffel, 1909

Asterococcus superbus Genus: Planktonic; unicellular or colony of 4, 8, or 16 cells; both cells and its colony covered with layers of mucous sheath; cell body spherical; cell wall smooth; a single chloroplast star-shaped, with a pyrenoid located at the center (Guide book to the "Photomicrographs of the Freshwater Algae", 1998).
Species:


Asterococcus sp. ?, cell body ellipsoidal, 15 μm long, 12 μm wide, two contractile vacuoles present, x 640, Akigase Park, Saitama city, Saitama Pref., Japan, March 2002 by Y. Tsukii
scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400 : scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Asterococcus Asterococcus Asterococcus


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