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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:


Asterococcous ??, cell body 11-15 μm long, 8-13 μm wide, contractile vacuoles present ?, x 640, Watarase-Yusuichi, Fujioka town, Tochigi Pref., May 2001 by Y. Tsukii
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