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Cyanophyceae: Chroococcales: Chroococcaceae
Cyanophyceae: Chroococcales: Merismopediaceae

 Merismopedia convoluta
Brébisson
Included in the form-genus XIV. Synechocystis (Bergey's Manual, 2nd, 2001)

Merismopedia convoluta Order & Family: Floating unicells or a colony embedded in a matrix; no differentiation of apical and base structures; only one family.
Genus: Colonies consiting of orderly arranged cells; diameter of cells at transverse section is the same as its length (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977). Colonies plate-like, cells regularly arranged in a gelatinous matrix; cells spherical or ellipsoid, hemispherical after division (Photomicrographs of the Freshwater Algae, vol. 2, 1984).
Species: Cell body pale blue-green, (3-) 4-5 μm in diam. (Photomicrographs of the Freshwater Algae, vol. 2, 1984).

Merismopedia convoluta Brébisson ?, cell body 5 μm long, 4 μm wide, x 640, Kamino-tanbo (bog/marsh), Tsugaike highland (near Tsugaike Natural Park), Otari village, Nagano Pref., Japan, August 11, 2006 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Merismopedia

Images of collecting locality: Kamino-tanbo (bog/marsh), Tsugaike highland (near Tsugaike Natural Park), Otari village, Nagano Pref., Japan, August 11, 2006 by Y. Tsukii

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