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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 spherical, papilla present, 15-19 μm long, 12-15 μm wide, 2 equal-length flagella, a large chlroplast, anterior papilla, x 400, Japan, 1998 by Y. Tsukii
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Chloromonas Chloromonas Chloromonas
Chloromonas 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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