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

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Dangeard, 1888

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Species: Cell body ellipsoidal or nearly spherical, 10-22 μm long, 8-22 μm wide; papilla absent; flagella 1.5-2 times longer than body length; chloroplast cup-shaped; a pyrenoid located at posterior half of the cell; stigma around equator, circular or elliptical in shape; nucleus anterior; sexual reproduction by isogamy; zygote surface smooth, colored red (Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa 9, Chlorophyta I, 1983).


Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, stock Tok-2, axenic culture with KCM and Hyponex (March 25 to April 29, 2002), cell body up to 18 μm long, 16 μm wide, two flagella about μm long, a pyrenoid located posterior, two contractile vacuole at anterior end, x 640, Kagami-Ike, Otawara city, Tochigi Pref., Japan, 2000 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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Chlamydomonas (reinhardtii ?), stock Tok-2, axenic culture with KCM and Hyponex medium (more than two months), a chloroplast deep cup-shaped, a pyrenoid at posterior half of the cell, stigma at equator, papilla absent, two contractile vacuoles anterior, x 640, Kagami-Ike, Otawara city, Tochigi Pref., 2000 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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