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Mesotaeniaceae
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Mesotaeniaceae

The Mesotaeniaceae are a small family of unicellular green algae known as the "saccoderm desmids". However the group does not appear to be closely allied to the "true" desmids, but rather related to the filamentous Zygnemataceae, such as Spirogyra.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 361963.