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Xanthophyceae: Mischococcales: Ophiocytiaceae

Ophiocytium parvulum
(Perty) A. Braun

Ophiocytium parvulum 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).
Species: Cell body cylindrical, curved, without projections at both ends, 5-6 μm in diam., 50-100 μm long (Illustrations of Japanese fresh-water algae, 1977).


Ophiocytium parvulum (Perty) A. Braun, cell body 70 μm long, 7 μm wide, L/W=, x 640, Okubo Ryoke (picnic-no-mori), Akigase park, Saitama city, Saitama Pref., Japan, April 17, 2005 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Ophiocytium parvulum Ophiocytium parvulum


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