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Chlorophyceae: Chlorococcales: Micractiniaceae

Golenkinia paucispina
W. et G. S. West

Franceia Genus: Unicellular, but autospore may become temporary colonical; planktonic; cell body spherical with many elongated spiny projections; a single chloroplast cup-shaped, with a single pyrenoid (Guide book to the "Photomicrographs of the Freshwater Algae", 1998).
Species: Vegetative cells spherical, 10-18 μm diam., with many short spines 15-20 μm long, 1 chloroplast cup-shaped, 1 pyrenoid (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).
Similar genus --> Franceia; Acanthosphaera; Micractinium; Errerella; Chodatella;


Golenkinia paucispina ?, stock Tnk-30, axenic culture with Hyponex and KCM, cell body 20-25 μm in diam., hairy spines up to 12 μm long, x 400, x 640, Nishi-nasuno town, Tochigi Pref., Japan, March 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
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Franceia sp.Golenkinia paucispina ?, stock Tnk-30, axenic culture with Hyponex and KCM, after prolonged culuture (6/16-8/12), cell body μm long, μm wide, x 640, Nishi-nasuno town, Tochigi Pref., Japan, March 2001 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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Franceia, stock Tnk-30, axenic culture with KCM and Hyponex (March 25 to April 23, 2002), cell body μm long, μm wide, x 640, Karasuga-mori Park, Nishi-nasuno town, Tochigi Pref., 2000 by Y. Tsukii
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Franceia, stock Tnk-30, axenic culture with KCM and Hyponex (March 25 to April 29, 2002), cell body μm long, μm wide, x 640, Karasuga-mori Park, Nishi-nasuno town, Tochigi Pref., 2000 by Y. Tsukii
Franceia Franceia Franceia

Golenkinia paucispina W. et G. S. West: Vegetative cells spherical, 10-18 μm diam., with many short spines 15-20 μm long, 1 chloroplast cup-shaped, 1 pyrenoid (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).


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