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

 Gloeomonas tecta
(Skuja) Ettl H. et O. 1959
Syn. Chlamydomonas tecta Skuja 1956

Species: Cell body broad ellipsoidal, cylindrical, or inverted ovoid, both ends rounded, 20-32 μm long, 13-27 μm wide; cellwall thick; covered by two layers of gelatinous sheaths; papilla broad, short, rounded at corners; length of flagella nearly the same as that of cell body; chloroplast cup-shaped, filling whole cell; stigma rounded, at equator or slightly anterior; nucleus centrally located; two apical contractile vacuoles at the base of flagella.
[var. subporosa (Skuja) Ettl 1993]: Cell body larger (26-28 x 25-32 μm); inner cellwall finely porous; sexual reproduction by heterogamy (Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa 9, Chlorophyta I, 1983).

Gloeomonas tecta (Skuja) Ettl H. et O. 1959 ?, cell body 26 μm long, 24 μm wide (including gelatinous coats), L/W=1.1, double-layered gelatinous coats about 3 μm in thickness, stigma located at anterior half of the cell body, x 640, Suiren-numa (pond), near Hakkoda mountain, Towada city (formerly Towadako town), Aomori Pref., Japan, July 17, 2005 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Gloeomonas Gloeomonas

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