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Taxonomic re-examination of "Chloromonas nivalis (Volvocales, Chlorophyceae) zygotes" from Japan and description of C. muramotoi sp. nov.

• Ryo Matsuzaki ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: matsuzaki.ryo@nies.go.jp

  Affiliation Center for Environmental Biology and Ecosystem Studies, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

  ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8989-5933

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• Hisayoshi Nozaki,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Nozomu Takeuchi,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Earth Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Chiba University, Yayoicho, Inage ward, Chiba, Chiba, Japan

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• Yoshiaki Hara,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Institute of Arts and Sciences, Yamagata University, Kojirakawa, Yamagata, Yamagata, Japan

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• Masanobu Kawachi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Environmental Biology and Ecosystem Studies, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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