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Chlorophyceae: Chlamydomonadales (Volvocales): Chlamydomonadaceae
Volvocida: Chlamydomonadina: Chlamydomonadidae

 Chlamydomonas proteus
Pringsheim

Chlamydomonas Species: Cell body ellipsoidal or slightly ovoid, up to 9 μm long, 6 μm wide; papilla as anterior hump; cellwall thin; flagella about 1.5 times longer than cell body; chloroplast lateral, posterior part separated into two lobes; a pyrenoid spherical, located lateral-central; stigma elliptical, located at anterior (at 1/3 of the cell body); nucleus located at posterior (Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa 9, Chlorophyta I, 1983).

Chlamydomonas proteus Pringsheim or similar species, cell body ellipsoidal 11 μm long, 6.5 μm wide, a small papilla present, a single chloroplast laterally located, a nucleus located at posterior half of the cell (?), stigma slightly anterior from the equator of the cell, a pyrenoid slightly posterior from the equator, x 640, Near railway station, Kami, Shiraoka town, Saitama Pref., Japan, April 2003 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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