Protist Images: Chlamydomonas parvula

Chlorophyceae: Chlamydomonadales (Volvocales): Chlamydomonadaceae
Volvocida: Chlamydomonadina: Chlamydomonadidae

Chlamydomonas parvula
Gerloff 1940 (1976?)

Species: Cell body ellipsoidal or nearly cylindrical, both ends rounded, 8-10 μm long, 4-6 μm wide; papilla absent; cellwall thick; flagellar length about the same as body length; chloroplast cup-shaped; a spherical pyrenoid central-lateral; stigma at anterior 1/3 of the cell; nucleus behind the pyrenoid (Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa 9, Chlorophyta I, 1983).

Chlamydomonas parvula Gerloff (?), cell body elliptical or pear-shaped (posterior end slightly narrowed), 9-12 μm long, 4-7 μm wide, a pyrenoid centrally located, nucleus at posterior half of the cell body, stigma at anterior half of the cell body, a small papilla present, x 640, Kata-numa (pond), Narugo town, Miyagi Pref., Japan, November 2003 by Y. Tsukii