image_list image_listE

Chlorophyceae: Tetrasporales: Palmellopsidaceae
Chlamydophyceae: Tetrasporales: Palmellopsidaceae

Gloeocystis gigas

Gloeocystis Genus: Colonies spherical or aggregates in shape; sheath conspicuous; cell body spherical in shape; chloroplasts cup-shaped or plate-like (Illustrations of the Japanese fresh-water algae, 1977).
Species:


Gloeocystis gigas (Syn. Chlamydocapsa sp. ?), cell body μm long, μm wide, L/W=, x 640, Kareki-numa marsh, Nikko city (formerly Fujiwara town), Tochigi Pref., Japan, August 2, 2008, collected by Eizaburo Tsukii, photo by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Gloeocystis Gloeocystis Gloeocystis


Please click on images for viewing enlarged.
Copyright Protist Information Server