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

 Chloromonas hypolimnica
(Skuja) Gerloff et Ettl in Ettl 1970

Chloromonas hypolimnica Species: Cell body inverted ovoid or ellipsoidal, both ends rounded, 17-20 μm long, 12-15 μm wide; papilla present (conical in shape); flagella about 1.5 times longer than the cell body; chloroplast cup-shaped; stigma elliptical, at equator or slightly anterior from it; nucleus centrally located; cytoplasm with many small spheres (Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa 9, Chlorophyta I, 1983).

Chloromonas hypolimnica (Skuja) Gerloff et Ettl in Ettl 1970 ?, stock Smn-2, axenic culture with EM (June 17 to July 7, 2003), cell body μm long, μm wide, x 640, Nishikubo damp area, Miyadera, Iruma city, Saitama Pref., Japan, May 2003 by Y. Tsukii
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Chloromonas Chloromonas

Chloromonas maculata Korschikoff (Syn: Chamydomonas korschkoffii Pascher): Cell body spherical, 15-26 μm in diam.; 2 flagella approximately equal to cell-body length; papilla small, flat in shape; many chloroplast small plate-like, without pyrenoids; stigma elliptical; 2 contractile vacuoles at the base of flagella; nucleus located at the center of the cell body (Photomicrographs of the Freshwater Algae, vol. 17, 1996).

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