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Dinophyceae: Peridiniales: Ceratiaceae
Dinoflagellida: Diniferina: Peridiniidae

 Ceratium furca
(Ehrenberg) Claparéde & Lachmann
or Ceratium furcoides (Levander) Langhans 1925 (Popovský & Pfiester 1990; John et al. eds. 2002)

Ceratium Genus: Body flattened; with one anterior and 1-4 posterior horn-like processes; chloroplasts yellow, brown, or greenish; numerous species (Kudo, 1960).
Species:

Ceratium furca or C. hirundinella type furcoides, cell body 184 μm long, x 400, x 640, Green-Park, Nishi-Urawa, Saitama Pref., Japan, June 2001 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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