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Cryptophyceae: Cryptomonadales: Cryptomonadaceae
Cryptomonadida

Cryptomonas platyuris
Skuja 1948

Cryptomonas platyuris Species: Cell body 31-50 μm long, 9-14 μm wide, 15-24 μm thick; laterally compressed, posterior end wide and rudder-like; chloroplasts 1(-2) per cell; without pyrenoid; refringent bodies 2 in a dorsal position roughly mid-way along cell; nucleus posterior (John et al. eds. 2002).
Similar genus -->> Chroomonas; Chilomonas;


Cryptomonas platyuris Skuja ?, cell body 37 μm long, 14 μm wide, L/W=2.6, x 640, Onnenai, Kushiro marsh, Kushiro city, Hokkaido, Japan, October 16, 2005 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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