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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 (or Chlamydocapsa sp. ?), cell body ellipsoidal (14 μm long, 10 μm wide) or spherical (18 μm in diam.), x 640, Omine-numa (pond/marsh), Tsukiyono town, Gunma Pref., Japan, September 2003 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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