Green Algae
Chlorophyta
Characium spp.

Profiles: Cells 10-480um length.. Epiphytic or epizooic.

Plankton - C. hookeri

Littoral plankton - C. ambiguum, C. curvatum, C. hookeri

Attached to filamentous algae - C. acuminatum, C. ambiguum, C. falcatum, C. obtusum, C. operculum, C. ornithocephalum, C. pringsheimii, C. rabenhorstii, C. rostratum

In mucilage of colonial algae - C. curvatum, C. stipitatum

Epizooic (crustacea) - C. gracilipes, C. debaryanum, C. hookeri, C. limneticum

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