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Chlorophyceae: Chlorococcales: Dictyosphaeriaceae

 Dictyosphaerium ehrenbergianum
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Dictyosphaerium ehrenbergianum Genus: Cells are equal in size (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977). Planktonic; colony within a gelatinous sheath; cell body spherical, elliptical or pear-shaped; 4 daughter cells attached to a filament dichotomously radiating from the center of the colony; a single chloroplast cup-shaped, with a pyrenoid.

Species:
Similar genus -->> Planktosphaeria; Westella;

Dictyosphaerium ehrenbergianum, cell body ellipsoidal, 8 μm long, 3.5 μm wide, x 640, Heise-no-mori Park, Kawajima (Kawashima) town, Saitama city, Saitama Pref., Japan, Aple 2002 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Dyctiosphaerium Dyctiosphaerium

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