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Gamophyceae: Zygnematales: Zygnemataceae

 Mougeotia parvula
Hassall

Mougeotia parvula Genus: Filamentous algae without branching; a single plate-like chloroplast in each cell (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).
Species: Cell body 30-140 μm long, 8-13 μm wide; 4-8 pyrenoids in each cell; zygotes spherical, 13-25 μm diam. (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).

Mougeotia parvula Hassall, cell body 64 μm long, 10.5 μm wide, x 640, Ohnuma (a pond in Ohnuma enchi), Nasu-shiobara city (formerly Shiobara town), Tochigi Pref., Japan, May 5, 2006, by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Mougeotia Mougeotia

Images of collecting locality: Ohnuma (a pond in Ohnuma enchi), Nasu-shiobara city (formerly Shiobara town), Tochigi Pref., Japan, May 5, 2006, by Y. Tsukii

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