{{Short description|Genus of algae}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Chlamydocapsa cf. lobata.png | image_caption = ''Chlamydocapsa'' sp. | taxon = Chlamydocapsa | authority = Fott<ref name=AB_t43406/> | type_species = ''Chlamydocapsa ampla'' | type_species_authority = (Kützing) Fott<ref name=AB_t43406/> | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = }}
'''''Chlamydocapsa''''' is a genus of green algae in the class Chlorophyceae.<ref name=AB_t43406>{{AlgaeBase genus|name=Chlamydocapsa|id=43406}}</ref><ref>See the NCBI [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Info&id=292727 webpage on Chlamydocapsa]. Data extracted from the {{cite web | url=https://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/taxonomy/ | title=NCBI taxonomy resources | publisher=National Center for Biotechnology Information | access-date=2007-03-19}}</ref>
''Chlamydocapsa'' consists of cells similar in structure to ''Chlamydomonas'', although vegetative cells lack flagella and are therefore not motile. Cells are in colonies of two, four, eight, or more (rarely solitary) and are embedded in concentric layers of mucilage. The cells are spherical to ovoid or ellipsoid, with two contractile vacuoles a single cup-shaped chloroplast containing one pyrenoid. Reproduction occurs by the formation of zoospores with two flgaella.<ref name=Shubert2014>{{cite book |editor-first1=John D.|editor-last1=Wehr|editor-first2=Robert G.|editor-last2=Sheath|editor-first3=J. Patrick|editor-last3=Kociolek |date= 2014 |edition=2 |title= Freshwater Algae of North America: Ecology and Classification |last1= Shubert|first1=Elliot| last2=Gärtner |first2=Georg |chapter= Chapter 7. Nonmotile Coccoid and Colonial Green Algae |url= |location= |publisher= Elsevier Inc. |page= |isbn=978-0-12-385876-4 }}</ref>
''Chlamydocapsa'' is a common and widespread genus in fresh waters.<ref name=Shubert2014/> However, it is unclear whether this genus is taxonomically valid, as it may simply be a nonmotile ("palmelloid") life stage of the genus ''Chlamydomonas''.<ref name=JohnWhitton2002>{{cite book|editor1=D. M. John |editor2=Brian A. Whitton |editor3=Alan J. Brook |title=The freshwater algal flora of the British Isles: an identification guide to freshwater and terrestrial algae|year=2002|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-77051-4}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.algaebase.org/search/genus/ AlgaeBase] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070928163719/http://www.algaterra.org/ATDB/Names/NamesMain.cfm AlgaTerra database] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070819165523/http://ravenel.si.edu/botany/ing/ingForm.cfm Index Nominum Genericorum]
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Category:Chlamydomonadales genera Category:Chlamydomonadales Category:Freshwater algae
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