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Cyanophyceae: Chroococcales: Chroococcaceae
Cyanophyceae: Chroococcales: Merismopediaceae

 Snowella litoralis
(Häyrén) Komárek et Hindák
formlery Gomphosphaeria litoralis Häyrén

Order & Family: Floating unicells or a colony embedded in a matrix; no differentiation of apical and base structures; only one family.
Genus: A spherical colony in which radial filamentous structure present (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).
Similar genus -> Dictyosphaerium

Snowella litoralis (Häyrén) Komárek et Hindák (formlery Gomphosphaeria litoralis Häyrén) ?, cell body μm long, μm wide, x 640, Kozuki Pond, Kinashi, Takamatsu city, Kagawa Pref., Japan, November 2002 by Y. Tsukii
scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400 : scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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