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Chlorophyceae: Volvocales: Spondylomoraceae
Volvocida: Volvocina: Volvocidae

Pyrobotrys casinoensis
P. casinoensis (Playfair) Silba 1972 (An Illustrated Guide to Freshwater Zooplankton in Japan, 2000)
P. casinoënsis (Playfair) Silva 1972 (Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa 9, Chlorophyta I, 1983)
P. casinoensis (Playfair) P.C. Silva 1972 (John et al. eds. 2002)
Syn.: P. gracilis (Korschikoff) Korschikoff 1938

Pyrobotrys Species: Colony of 8 or 16 cells, layered by 4-celled "chaplet", up to 45 (-58) μm long; cell body ovoid or pear-shaped, slightly asymmetrical, posteriorly narrowed, but not drown out, 10-25 μm long; cellwall thin; flagella 1.5 times longer than the cell body; chloroplast cup-shaped; stigma located around the backward-inclined area of the cell (Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa 9, Chlorophyta I, 1983).


Pyrobotrys casinoensis (Playfair) Silba 1972, cell body μm long, μm wide, x 640, Naruto town, Chiba Pref., Japan, September 2003 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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