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

Vitreochlamys aulata
(Formerly Sphaerellopsis Korschikoff 1925)
(Pascher) Gerloff 1940
Syn.: Chlamydomonas aulata Pascher 1927

Vitreochlamys 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, cell wall 26 μm long, 23 μm wide, L/W=1.1, inner cytoplasm 17 μm long, 14 μm wide, L/W=1.2, a nucleus at anterior half of the cell body, a pyrenoid posterior, x 640, agricultural canal near Umenoki-furukori water reserve, Higashi-Matsuyama city, Saitama Pref., Japan, February 25, 2006 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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Images of collecting locality: Agricultural canal near Umenoki-furukori water reserve, Higashi-Matsuyama city, Saitama Pref., Japan, February 25, 2006 by Y. Tsukii

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