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Chlorophyceae: Chlamydomonadales (Volvocales): Phacotaceae
Volvocida: Chlamydomonadina: Phacotidae

Pteromonas cordiformis
Lemmermann, 1900

Pteromonas Genus: Unicellular; two equal-length flagella emerging from anterior end; cell body flat, broad ovoidal, lateral view spindle-shaped, within a gelatinous sheath quadrangular in shape; a single chloroplast plate-like, with 4-6 pyrenoids (Guide book to the "Photomicrographs of the Freshwater Algae", 1998).
Species:


Pteromonas cordiformis, test 13 μm long, 11 μm wide, cell body 11 μm long, 7 μm wide, one or two contractile vacuoles at the base of flagella, x 640, Chikozan park, Sayama, Saitama Pref., Japan, August 2001 by Y. Tsukii
scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400 : scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Pteromonas Pteromonas Pteromonas Pteromonas
Pteromonas Pteromonas Pteromonas Pteromonas


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