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Heterokonta: Chrysophyceae: Ochromonadales: Ochromonadaceae
Ochromonas variabilis
H. Meyer
Genus: Solitary or colonial; body surface delicate; one to two chloroplasts; usually with a stigma;
fresh water (Kudo, 1966).
One to several chloroplasts; pyrenoid and/or eyespot (stigma) in some; cells naked, globular,
ellipsoidal or pyriform (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Species:
Ochromonas variabilis,
tape No. 0057, time code 0000,
cell body spherical about 7 μm in diam., with two chloroplasts,
a contractile vacuole at the base of flagellla,
Japan, July, 1998 by Y. Tsukii
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