Species: Cell body 31-50 μm long, 9-14 μm wide, 15-24 μm thick; laterally compressed, posterior end wide and rudder-like; chloroplasts 1(-2) per cell; without pyrenoid; refringent bodies 2 in a dorsal position roughly mid-way along cell; nucleus posterior (John et al. eds. 2002).

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C. platyuris ? 46 x 20 μm Toneri Park Tokyo, 2001	C. platyuris ? 43 x 17 μm Kosugi Toyama, 2002	C. platyuris ? 39 x 16 μm Nishi-Urawa Saitama, 2001	C. platyuris ? 34 x 19 μm Nishi-Urawa Saitama, 2003
C. platyuris ? μm Kejo-numa Furukawa Miyagi, 2003	C. platyuris 38 x 20 μm Shimo-no-koike Shiga highland Nagano, 2004	C. platyuris 41 x 16 μm near Okubo ike Shinano Nagano, 2004	C. platyuris ? 50 x 24 μm Mitsumata-numa Kawagoe etc. Saitama, 2005
C. platyuris 42 x 18 μm Kodanuki marsh Fujinomiya Shizuoka, 2005	C. platyuris 37 x 14 μm Onnenai Kushiro marsh Hokkaido, 2005	C. platyuris ? 36 x 21 μm Banpaku memorial p. Tsukuba Ibaraki, 2006	C. platyuris ? μm KitaKashiwa f.p. Kashiwa Chiba, 2008

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