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Chlorophyceae: Tetrasporales: Gloeococcaceae
Chlamydophyceae: Tetrasporales: Palmellopsidaceae (Palmellaceae)

 Asterococcus sp.

Asterococcus Genus: Planktonic; unicellular or colony of 4, 8, or 16 cells; both cells and its colony covered with layers of mucous sheath; cell body spherical; cell wall smooth; a single chloroplast star-shaped, with a pyrenoid located at the center (Guide book to the "Photomicrographs of the Freshwater Algae", 1998).
Species:

Asterococcus sp. ?, cell body spherical, 14-15 μm in diam., x 640, Tanohara Natural Park, Ontake highland, Otaki town, Nagano Pref., Japan, June 26, 2005 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Asterococcus Asterococcus Asterococcus Asterococcus Asterococcus
Cell body spherical, 18 μm in diam., x 640
Asterococcus

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