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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: Cell body spherical, 15-20 μm in diam.; a single chloroplast star-shaped, with a pyrenoid (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).

Asterococcus superbus ?, young cell body ellipsoidal, 10 μm long, 8 μm wide, mature cell body spherical, up to 25 μm in diam., x 640, rice field, near City Hall, Fujimi city, Saitama Pref., Japan, July 11, 2004 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Asterococcus Asterococcus
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