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Cryptophyceae: Cryptomonadales: Cryptomonadaceae
Cryptomonadida

Chilomonas
Ehrenberg, 1832

Family: Body truncate anteriorly; two anterior flagella; an oblique furrow near anterior region.
Genus: Similar to Cryptomonas in general body form and structure, but colorless; without pyrenoid; "cytopharynx" (gullet) deep, lower half surrounded by granules (ejectisome/trichocyst); one contractile vacuole anterior (Kudo, 1966).
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Posterior straight
Chilomonas
Chilomonas sp.
x 1000, 36 μm
Taiwan, 1999
Chilomonas
C. paramecium
x 400, 27-31 μm
Japan, 1997
Chilomonas
C. paramecium
cell division
Japan, 199?
Chilomonas
C. paramecium
24-28 μm
small variety ?
Japan, 1998
Movies
Chilomonas
C. paramecium
24 x 10 μm
Uruguay, 1999
Chilomonas paramecium
C. paramecium
stock 228, axenic
μm
Uruguay, 1999
Chilomonas paramecium
C. paramecium
stock Kei-
μm
Kyoto, 2000

C. paramecium
stock Iso-1, axenic
Japan, 199?
Chilomonas paramecium
C. paramecium
stock Iso-1, axenic
Japan, 199?
Chilomonas paramecium
C. paramecium
22-26 x 8-12 μm
Kasai Seaside Park
Tokyo, 2001
Chilomonas
C. paramecium
25-28 x 9-12 μm
Hasuda
Saitama, 2002
Chilomonas
C. paramecium
23 x 10 μm
Kagami-gawa
Kochi, 2002
Chilomonas paramecium
C. paramecium
24-28 x 10-12 μm
Kasuga
Fukuoka, 2001
Chilomonas paramecium
C. paramecium
27 x 9 μm
Tsuchiura
Ibaraki, 2002
Chilomonas paramecium
C. paramecium
10 μm φ
Yaku Island
Kagoshima, 2001
Chilomonas
C. paramecium ?
27 x 9 μm
Kashiwa
Chiba, 2002
Chilomonas
C. paramecium
μm φ
Yamato
Kanagawa, 2003
Chilomonas
C. paramecium
25 x 9 μm φ
Ogose town
Saitama, 2003
Chilomonas
C. paramecium
μm φ
Hikone
Shiga, 2003
Chilomonas
C. paramecium
μm φ
Hikone
Shiga, 2003
Chilomonas
C. paramecium
μm φ
Midorigaoka park
Sukagawa
Fukushima, 2003
Chilomonas
C. paramecium
μm φ
Near Shinrin-koen
Namegawa
Saitama, 2003
Chilomonas paramecium
C. paramecium
27 x 10 μm
Kumakubo
Nasu-shiobara
Tochigi, 2005
Posterior curved
Chilomonas paramecium
C. paramecium ?
28 x 13 μm
posterior curved
Niigata, 2001
Chilomonas
C. paramecium ?
23 x 10 μm
posterior curved
Chiba, 2001
Chilomonas
C. paramecium ?
24 x 11 μm
posterior curved
Kuroiso
Tochigi, 2002
Chilomonas
C. paramecium ?
μm
posterior curved
Moroyama town
Saitama, 2003
Small variety ?
Chilomonas
C. paramecium
24-28 μm
small variety ?
Saitama, 1999
Chilomonas paramecium
C. paramecium
23-26 x 8-9 μm
small variety ?
Shirahata-Numa
Saitama, 2001
Chilomonas paramecium
C. paramecium
22 x 8 μm
small variety ?
Hanazono
Saitama, 2001
Chilomonas paramecium
C. paramecium
21 x 7 μm
Tsuchiura
Ibaraki, 2002
Chilomonas
C. paramecium ?
23 x 12 μm
Yamato
Kanagawa, 2003
Chilomonas
C. paramecium ?
μm
Shimo-takatsu
Tsuchiura
Ibaraki, 2003
misc.
Chilomonas
C. paramecium
25 x 10 μm
ectosymbiont ?
Ichikawa
Chiba, 2001

C. paramecium
stock Cat-9b, axenic
abnormal
22 x 14 μm
Chiba, 2000
Chilomonas
Chilomonas sp.
12 x 9 μm
abnormal ?
1998
Chilomonas
Chilomonas sp. ?
29 x 19 μm
abnormal ?
1998
xxxx
Chilomonas sp. ?
or similar species
μm
Izumi-no-mori-koen
Yamato
Kanagawa, 2003

Chilomonas ?
14 x 8 μm
abnormal ?
Ibaraki, 2000
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