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Chlorophyta
Oocystis spp.

Oocystis spp.

Class Chlorophyceae - Order Chlorococcales - Family Oocystaceae

Profile: solitary or colonies to 16 cells within a mother cell wall. Cells to 62um. Planktonic

Soft Water - O. elliptica, O. gloeocystiformis, O. lacustris

Rare - O. crassa, O. gigas, O. nodulosa, O. solitaria v. major, O. submarina

Uncommon - O. pusilla

Variable - O. borgei, O. elliptica v. minor, O. eremosphaeria, O. gigas v. incrassata, O. lacustris, O. marsonii, O. natans, O. natans v. major, O. nodulosa, O. novae-semliae, O. novae-semliae v. maxima, O. panduriformis, O. panduriformis v. minor, O. panra, O. parva, O. pyriformis, O. solitaria

D - O. borgei is a dominant component of the summer phytoplankton assemblage in Lake Ontario

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