Volvulina Volvulina

Chlorophyceae: Volvocales: Volvocaceae
Volvocida: Volvocina: Volvocidae

Volvulina steinii
Nozaki 1989 (An Illustrated Guide to Freshwater Zooplankton in Japan, 2000)
Playfair 1915 (Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa 9, Chlorophyta I, 1983; John et al. eds. 2002)

Volvulina Genus:
Species: Colony without gelatinous sheath; cells lack pyrenoids (Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa 9, Chlorophyta I, 1983).
Similar genus -->> Eudorina;


Volvulina steinii Playfair, colony 65 μm long, 56 μm wide, cell body 11 μm long, 24 μm wide, x 640, rice field near Oyomi marsh, Hakuba village, Nagano Pref., Japan, October 3, 2004 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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