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Name derivation: |
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Green angular cell or green productive cell Green Chloro- elongate or productive –gonium |
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Classification: |
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Chlorogonium Ehrenberg 1836Order Chlamydomonadales; Family Haematococcaceae |
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Morphology: |
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Spindle-shaped or elongated ellipsoidal with two equal length flagella at anterior end. There are at least two contractile vacuoles one positioned at each end of the cell. Chloroplasts is parietal, lacking pyrenoids or with one or more pyrenoids (Nozaki 2003). |
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Habitat: |
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Freshwater; widespread in North America (Nozaki 2003). |
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References: |
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Ehrenberg, C.G. 1836. Zusätze zur Erkenntniss grosser organischer Ausbildung in den kleinsten thierischen Organismen. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1835: 150-181. Guiry, M.D. and G.M. Guiry 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 10 September 2013. Nozaki, H. 2003. Flagellated green algae. In: Wehr, J.D., and R.G. Sheath. Freshwater Algae of North America, Academic Press (Chapter 6) . |
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