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Genus : Cell body colorless, anterior end bluntly and broadly truncated, posterior end divided to two or three conical projections; longitudinally furrowed; from this furrow, pseudopodia occasionally formed to ingest algal cells; four flagella present; chloroplasts and stigma absent; cytoplasm considerably vacuolated (food vacuoles and others); two or many contractile vacuoles at periphery; nucleus anterior (Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa 9, Chlorophyta I, 1983).

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C. triciliatum 32 x 21 μm flag. 75 μm Japan, 1997	C. triciliatum 38 x 24 μm flag. > 20 μm Saitama, 1999 Movies	C. triciliatum 38 x 23 μm flag. 45 μm Tendo Yamagata, 1999 Movies	C. triciliatum 31 x 21 μm flag. μm Ichikawa Chiba, 2001
C. triciliatum 33 x 24 μm flag. 25 μm Kiyose Tokyo, 2001	C. triciliatum ? or Aulacomonas ? cell 23 x 13 μm Japan, 1998	C. triciliatum cell μm Michi-no-eki Tsukiyono Gunma, 2003

Similar genus -->> Aulacomonas;

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