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Xanthophyceae: Tribonematales:

Tribonema regulare
(Wille) Hazen

Tribonema Genus: Filament without branching; cell body cylindrical; each cell wall consists of two parts with "H" structure overlapping at the midregion; chloroplasts many, disc-shaped, without pyrenoids (Guide book to the "Photomicrographs of the Freshwater Algae", 1998).
Species: Filament 6-7 μm wide; cell body 2-3 times longer than its width; 2-4 parietal chloroplasts (Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa 3, Xanthophyceae 1, 1978).


Tribonema regulare (Wille) Hazen, cell body μm long, 6-7 μm wide, x 640, Ikoi-no-hiroba near Ara-kawa (Ara river), Kami-muneoka, Shiki city, Saitama Pref., Japan, April 25, 2004 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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