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Cryptophyceae: Cryptomonadales: Cryptomonadaceae
Cryptomonadida

Cryptomonas platyuris
Skuja 1948

Cryptomonas platyuris Species: Cell body 31-50 μm long, 9-14 μm wide, 15-24 μm thick; laterally compressed, posterior end wide and rudder-like; chloroplasts 1(-2) per cell; without pyrenoid; refringent bodies 2 in a dorsal position roughly mid-way along cell; nucleus posterior (John et al. eds. 2002).
Similar genus -->> Chroomonas; Chilomonas;


Cryptomonas platyuris Skuja ?, cell body μm long, μm wide, L/W=, x 640, No.1, KitaKashiwa Furusato Park, Kashiwa city, Chiba Pref., Japan, February 17, 2008 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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Images of collecting locality: No.1, KitaKashiwa Furusato Park, Kashiwa city, Chiba Pref., Japan, February 17, 2008 by Y. Tsukii


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