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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-1, axenic culture from February 4 to February 20 (2006), cell body 14 μm long, 12 μm wide, L/W=1.2, flagella 10 μm long, x 640, Nishikubo damp area, Miyadera, Iruma city, Saitama Pref., Japan, May 2003 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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Cell body (left) 19 μm long, 14 μm wide, L/W=1.4, stigma located at equator of the cell body, x 640
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Cell body 23 μm long, 15 μm wide, L/W=, dome-like papilla present, x 640
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Dividing cells, x 640
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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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