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Cryptophyceae: Cryptomonadales: Cryptomonadaceae
Cryptomonadida

 Chilomonas paramecium
Ehrenberg, 1832

Chilomonas 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).
Species:
Similar genus -->> Cryptomonas; Chroomonas;

Chilomonas sp., a starved cell ?, with few paramylon grains, x 400, x 640, Saitama Pref., Japan, May-June 1999 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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