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Chlorophyceae: Chlamydomonadales (Volvocales): Chlamydomonadaceae
Volvocida: Chlamydomonadina: Chlamydomonadidae

 Chloromonas sp.
Gobi, 1899

Chloromonas Genus: Similar to Chlamydomonas, but pyrenoids absent.
Species:

Chloromonas sp., cell body μm long, μm wide, x 640, Daidarabotchi-ike (or Daizahoshi-ike), Iizuna-kogen (Iizuna Highland), Nagano city, Nagano Pref., Japan, September 2003, 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
Chloromonas Chloromonas
Chloromonas Chloromonas Chloromonas Chloromonas

Chloromonas maculata Korschikoff (Syn: Chamydomonas korschkoffii Pascher): Cell body spherical, 15-26 μm in diam.; 2 flagella approximately equal to cell-body length; papilla small, flat in shape; many chloroplast small plate-like, without pyrenoids; stigma elliptical; 2 contractile vacuoles at the base of flagella; nucleus located at the center of the cell body (Photomicrographs of the Freshwater Algae, vol. 17, 1996).

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