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

 Chloromonas tenebraria
(Skuja) Gerloff et Ettl in Ettl 1970

Chloromonas tenebraria Species: Mature cell body spherical or ellipsoidal, 12-15 μm in diam.; young cell body ellipsoidal or cylindrical, 8-13 μm long, 4-7 μm wide; rounded papilla present; chloroplast cup-shaped, with a large concave; stigma rounded, located anterior 1/4 of the cell body; nucleus centrally located (Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa 9, Chlorophyta I, 1983).

Chloromonas tenebraria (Skuja) Gerloff et Ettl (or C. coccinella Gerloff 1962 ?), cell body ellipsoidal (nearly spherical), 13 μm long, 11 μm wide, x 400, x 640, Uruguay, November 1999, photo by Yuuji Tsukii
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Chloromonas Chloromonas Chloromonas
A dividing cell, x 400, x 640
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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