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Xanthophyceae: Mischococcales: Ophiocytiaceae

Ophiocytium gracillimum
Borzi em. Pascher

Ophiocytium gracillimum Genus: Unicellular; planktonic; cell body elongated cylindroid, curved or twisted; both ends rounded, with spiny projections; cell wall not separated into two parts (compare to Centritractus); several chloroplasts plate-like, without pyrenoids (Guide book to the "Photomicrographs of the Freshwater Algae", 1998).
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Ophiocytium gracillimum Borzi em. Pascher, cell body 77 μm long, 7 μm wide, L/W=, spiny projection 8 μm long, x 640, standing water near Suga-daira marsh, Ueda city, Nagano Pref., Japan, July 6, 2006 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Ophiocytium gracillimum

Images of collecting locality: Standing water near Suga-daira marsh, Ueda city, Nagano Pref., Japan, July 6, 2006 by Y. Tsukii


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