Anterior apical view
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Description:
Anterior apical view of Gonium pectorale (Muller), a common colonial volvocid flagellate. Colonies usually consist of 16 biflagellate cells (twelve peripheral and four central) in a plate-like arrangement of one layer. An extracellular matrix (not easily seen without phase or differential intereference contrast techniques) connects cells. Cells have a cup-shaped chloroplast with a small anterior stigma. Collected from a freshwater pond near Boise, Idaho. DIC.
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- Life (creatures)
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- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Archaeplastida (plants)
- Chloroplastida (green plants)
- Chlorophyta (chlorophytes)
- Chlorophyceae
- Chlamydomonadales
- Volvocaceae (volvox family)
- Gonium
- Gonium pectorale
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