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Chlorophyceae: Chlorococcales: Dictyosphaeriaceae

Dictyosphaerium elegans
Bachmann

Dictyosphaerium elegans Genus: Cells are equal in size (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977). Planktonic; colony within a gelatinous sheath; cell body spherical, elliptical or pear-shaped; 4 daughter cells attached to a filament dichotomously radiating from the center of the colony; a single chloroplast cup-shaped, with a pyrenoid.
Species:
Similar genus -->> Planktosphaeria; Westella;


Dictyosphaerium elegans Bachmann , cell body μm long, μm wide, L/W=, x 640, No.10 (Suimei-no-hotori), Kannon-numa Forest Park (pond), Shimogo town, Fukushima Pref., Japan, November 15, 2008, by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Dictyosphaerium elegans Dictyosphaerium elegans Dictyosphaerium elegans

Images of collecting locality: No.10 (Suimei-no-hotori), Kannon-numa Forest Park (pond), Shimogo town, Fukushima Pref., Japan, November 15, 2008, by Y. Tsukii


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