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Chlorophyceae: Chlorococcales: Oocystaceae

 Monoraphidium sp.

Monoraphidium Genus: Cell body elongated spindle in shape, straight or curved, sharply pointed at both ends; (Guide book to the "Photomicrographs of the Freshwater Algae", 1998).
Species:
Similar species -->> Ankistrodesmus densus;

Monoraphidium (M. litorale ?), stock Ssa-4, axenic culture (October 20-November 22, 2001), four or eight daughter cells attached until the next cell division, cell body centrally narrowed, 53 μm long, 4.7 μm wide, slightly constricted at the center, x 640, Sayama, Saitama Pref., Japan, September 2001 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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Monoraphidium litorale Hindak: Cells singular, fusiform, often attached to a subtrate or to mother cell wall remnant with one end by means of a mucous target; 22-43 micron long, 2-6 micron wide; a chloroplast pariental, trough-shaped, with a naked pyrenoid (without starch-envelope); cell division produces 4, 8 or 16 autospores (daughter cells) releasing by crosswise rupture of mother cell wall (Phtomicrog. Freshw. Alg. 16: 56, 1996)

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