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Xanthophyceae: Mischococcales: Pleurochloridaceae

Tetraedriella spinigera
Skuja

Tetraedriella Genus: Unicellular; planktonic; cell body tetrahedron in shape; each corner drawn out to form a projection; many chloroplasts disc-shaped, without pyrenoids (Guide book to the "Photomicrographs of the Freshwater Algae", 1998).
Species:
Similar genus -->> Tetraplektron; Tetraedron;


Tetraedriella spinigera Skuja (or Teraedron regulare ?), cell body 40 μm long, 40 μm wide, x 640, Tane-ike (pond), Togakushi highland, Shinano town, Nagano Pref., Japan, June 12, 2005 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Tetraedriella Tetraedriella Tetraedriella


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