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Chlorophyceae: Chaetophorales: Chaetophoraceae

Chaetophora pisiformis
(Roth) Agardh

Chaetophora pisiformis Genus: Filament with branching; cell body cylindrical; a single chloroplast plate-like, slightly curved, with 1 to several pyrenoids; apical cells pointed or drawn out as hairly projections; no difference between axial and branching filaments; forming a large clump attached on a substrate (Guide book to the "Photomicrographs of the Freshwater Algae", 1998).
Species:
Similar Genus -> Cloniophora; Cladophora;


Chaetophora pisiformis (Roth) Agardh or C. attenuata Hazen ?, cell body μm long, μm wide, x 100, x 200, x 400, x 640, a small pond at Nagaike park, Hachioji city, Tokyo, Japan, April 6, 2005 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
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Cell body μm long, μm wide, x 200
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Cell body μm long, μm wide, x 200, x 400
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Cell body 16-55 μm long, 6-8 μm wide, x 400, x 640
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Cell body 9-13 μm long, 3.5-6 μm wide, x 640
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Cell body 16-27 μm long, 6-7 μm wide, x 640
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Cell body 130 μm long, 5.5 μm wide, x 640
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