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Phytomastigophora: Volvocida: Polyblephaeridina: Carteriiidae
Chlorophyta: Chlorophyceae: Dunaliellales

Polytomella
Aragao 1910

Suborder : Cells naked (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Genus (Aragoa): Cell body ovoid or pyriform with conical or pointed posterior end; 4 equal-length flagella inserted at the base of a papilla; cells colorless; eyspot present or absent; 1-layered cysts common; 2 anterior contractile vacuoles; cell division by longitudinal fission; sexual reproduction isogamous to form a 4-flagellate zygote (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
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Polytomella parva
P. parva
xenic culture
cell swelled
flag. μm
Miyadera
Iruma
Saitama, 2003
Polytomella parva
P. parva
axenic culture
cell ovoid
flag. μm
Miyadera
Iruma
Saitama, 2003
Polytomella parva
P. parva
stock Sim-19
cell ovoid
flag. μm
Miyadera
Iruma
Saitama, 2003
Polytomella parva
P. parva
stock Sim-11
cell ovoid
flag. μm
Miyadera
Iruma
Saitama, 2003
Polytomella parva
P. parva
μm
xenic culture
Near Chyokyu-ji
Iruma
Saitama, 2003
Polytomella parva
P. parva
stock Sim-1 & -2
axenic culture
Near Chyokyu-ji
Iruma
Saitama, 2003
Similar genus -->> Tetrablepharis (Chlamydomonadales: Chlamydomonadaceae);

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Polytomella
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