 
 
Chlorophyceae: 
Chlamydomonadales (Volvocales): Chlamydomonadaceae
Volvocida: Chlamydomonadina: Carteriidae
Vitreochlamys aulata
(Formerly Sphaerellopsis Korschikoff 1925)
(Pascher) Gerloff 1940
Syn.: Chlamydomonas aulata Pascher 1927
|  Species: 
Cell body (cellwall) broad ellipsoidal or inverted ovoid or spherical, 15-38 μm long, 10-30 μm wide 
cellwall thin; papilla absent; protoplast broad ovoid; length of flagella same as that of cell body; 
chloroplast cup-shaped, anterior half striated; a large pyrenoid located at posterior; stigma circular or elliptical, located at equator; 
nucleus at the center of the cell; two contractile vacuoles apical; other tree or four vacuoles also present 
(Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa 9, Chlorophyta I, 1983). | 
Vitreochlamys aulata (Pascher) Gerloff 1940 ? (or Chlamydomonas ?), 
cell body 18 μm long, 16 μm wide, 
x 640, Kamigo ni-ku, Kaminokawa town, Tochigi Pref., Japan, May 4, 2004 by Y. Tsukii
 31 μm
 31 μm
 63 μm
 63 μm
 94 μm; x 640
 94 μm; x 640
 
 
 
 
 
 
Sphaerellopsis aulata (Pascher) Gerloff 1940, 
stock Tisk-2e, axenic culture with Hyponex and KCM, 
cell body up to 25 μm long, 21 μm wide, 
x 640, Kamigo ni-ku, Kaminokawa town, Tochigi Pref., Japan, May 4, 2004 by Y. Tsukii
 31 μm
 31 μm
 63 μm
 63 μm
 94 μm; x 640
 94 μm; x 640
 
 
 
 
 
 
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