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Chlorophyceae: Chlorosarcinales: Chlorosarcinaceae
(Chlorophyceae: Chaetophorales: Protococcaceae)

 Desmococcus sp.
Syn: Protococcus, Pleurococcus, Apatococcus

Desmococcus Genus: Subaerial algae or an algal component of lichens; colonies as cell aggregates or sometimes form filaments in part; cell body spherical or elongated ellipsoidal; with a single chloroplast plate-like (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).
Species:

Desmococcus sp. (D. olivaceus ?), cell body 8-16 μm in diam., x 640, platform at Nasu-Shiobara railway station, Nasu-shiobara city (formerly Kuroiso city), Tochigi Pref., Japan, September 2001 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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