Vitreochlamys Gloeocystiformis
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''Vitreochlamys'' is a genus of
green algae The green algae (singular: green alga) are a group consisting of the Prasinodermophyta and its unnamed sister which contains the Chlorophyta and Charophyta/Streptophyta. The land plants (Embryophytes) have emerged deep in the Charophyte alga as ...
in the family Chlamydomonadaceae.See the NCBIbr>webpage on Vitreochlamys
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It is sometimes known by the name ''Sphaerellopsis'', published by Aleksandr Arkadievich Korshikov. However, that name is an illegitimate later homonym, preceded by ''Sphaerellopsis'' . It is commonly found in freshwater habitats. ''Vitreochlamys'' is a unicellular, free-living organism. Cells are spherical, ovoidal, or ellipsoidal, with two equal flagella at one end, and two or three contractile vacuoles at the base of the flagella. The cell wall is swollen, giving the appearance of a layer surrounding the protoplast. Cells contain a single large
chloroplast A chloroplast () is a type of membrane-bound organelle known as a plastid that conducts photosynthesis mostly in plant and algal cells. The photosynthetic pigment chlorophyll captures the energy from sunlight, converts it, and stores it in ...
filling the cell, with pyrenoids and a stigma. Asexual reproduction occurs by the formation of zoospores within the parent cell wall; sexual reproduction has not been observed. Species are distinguished from each other by their cell shape, number of contractile vacuoles and pyrenoids, location of the cell nucleus, and degree of longitudinal striation of the chloroplasts. The swollen cell wall is gelatinous, and similar in composition to the gelatinous matrices of other colonial algae, such as the Volvocaceae. As currently
circumscribed In geometry, the circumscribed circle or circumcircle of a polygon is a circle that passes through all the vertices of the polygon. The center of this circle is called the circumcenter and its radius is called the circumradius. Not every polyg ...
, the genus ''Vitreochlamys'' is known to be polyphyletic.


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Chlamydomonadales genera Chlamydomonadaceae Freshwater algae {{Chlorophyceae-stub