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Chlorophyceae: Chlamydomonadales (Volvocales): Chlamydomonadaceae
Volvocida: Chlamydomonadina: Carteriidae

Vitreochlamys aulata
(Formerly Sphaerellopsis Korschikoff 1925)
(Pascher) Gerloff 1940
Syn.: Chlamydomonas aulata Pascher 1927

Species: Cell body (cellwall) broad ellipsoidal or inverted ovoid or spherical, 15-38 μm long, 10-30 μm wide cellwall thin; papilla absent; protoplast broad ovoid; length of flagella same as that of cell body; chloroplast cup-shaped, anterior half striated; a large pyrenoid located at posterior; stigma circular or elliptical, located at equator; nucleus at the center of the cell; two contractile vacuoles apical; other tree or four vacuoles also present (Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa 9, Chlorophyta I, 1983).


Vitreochlamys aulata (Pascher) Gerloff ??, cell body 17 μm long, 14 μm wide, a large pyrenoid located at posterior half of the cell body, stigma elliptical (2-3 μm long), located at equator, x 640, rice field, Shimo-muneoka, Shiki city, Saitama Pref., Japan, October 24, 2004 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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Cell body 15 μm long, 12 μm wide, x 640
Vitreochlamys Vitreochlamys
Cell body 20-21 μm long, 18-18.5 μm wide, x 640
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Cell body 13 μm long, 10.5 μm wide, x 640
Vitreochlamys Vitreochlamys


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