Chlamydomonas elegans is a species of freshwater green algae.

It is commonly found in rainwater pools and other small, temporary bodies of water.

[2] Chlamydomonas elegans is a unicellular organism with ellipsoidal-ovoid cells, which are usually flattened on one side, and rounded at the ends.

The chloroplast contains a single spherical pyrenoid, located at the middle of the cell.

Two contractile vacuoles are at the anterior end of the cell.