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Gamophyceae: Zygnematales: Zygnemataceae

 Mougeotia scalaris
Hassall 1842
Mougeotia Genus: Filamentous algae without branching; a single plate-like chloroplast in each cell (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).
Species: vegetative cells 40-180 μm long, 20-34 μm diam., 4-10 pyrenoids (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).
Mougeotia scalaris (or similar species), cell body μm long, 21 μm wide, L/W=, x 400, x 640, a small pond at Kusatsu Onsen bus terminal, Kusatsu town, Gunma Pref., Japan, June 5, 2005 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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