Chlorophyceae:
Chlamydomonadales (Volvocales): Chlamydomonadaceae
Volvocida: Chlamydomonadina: Chlamydomonadidae
Chloromonas tenebraria
(Skuja) Gerloff et Ettl in Ettl 1970
Species:
Mature cell body spherical or ellipsoidal, 12-15 μm in diam.;
young cell body ellipsoidal or cylindrical, 8-13 μm long, 4-7 μm wide;
rounded papilla present; chloroplast cup-shaped, with a large concave;
stigma rounded, located anterior 1/4 of the cell body; nucleus centrally located
(Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa 9, Chlorophyta I, 1983).
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Chloromonas, stock 42-1a, axenic culture with EM medium (September 30 to November 10, 2002),
selfing conjugation occurred after washing with KCM,
cell body 16 μm long (excluding papilla), 15 μm wide,
x 640, Uruguay, November 1999 by Y. Tsukii
31 μm
63 μm
94 μm; x 640
Chloromonas tenebraria (Skuja) Gerloff et Ettl (or C. coccinella Gerloff 1962 ?),
stock 42-1a, axenic culture with EM medium,
selfing conjugation occurred after washing with KCM,
cell body μm long, μm wide,
x 640, Uruguay, November 1999 by Y. Tsukii
31 μm
63 μm
94 μm; x 640
Chloromonas maculata Korschikoff (Syn: Chamydomonas korschkoffii Pascher):
Cell body spherical, 15-26 μm in diam.; 2 flagella approximately equal to cell-body length;
papilla small, flat in shape; many chloroplast small plate-like, without pyrenoids;
stigma elliptical; 2 contractile vacuoles at the base of flagella; nucleus located at the center of the cell body
(Photomicrographs of the Freshwater Algae, vol. 17, 1996).
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