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Cyanophyceae: Chroococcales: Chroococcaceae
Cyanophyceae: Chroococcales: Merismopediaceae

 Snowella sp.
formerly Gomphosphaeria sp.

Gomphosphaeria Order & Family: Floating unicells or a colony embedded in a matrix; no differentiation of apical and base structures; only one family.
Genus: A spherical colony in which radial filamentous structure present (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).
Similar genus -> Dictyosphaerium

Snowella sp. (formerly Gomphosphaeria sp.) ?, cell body ellipsoidal, 3 μm long, 2.5 μm wide, colony nearly spherical, 35 μm in diam., x 640, rice field, Higashi-sano (near Minami-kamishiro railway station), Hakuba village, Nagano Pref., Japan, October 3, 2004 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Gomphosphaeria Gomphosphaeria

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