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Chlorophyceae: Volvocales: Volvocaceae
Volvocida: Volvocina: Volvocidae

Eudorina elegans
Ehrenberg 1832 (An Illustrated Guide to Freshwater Zooplankton in Japan, 2000)
Ehrenberg 1831 (Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa 9, Chlorophyta I, 1983; John et al. eds. 2002)

Species: Colony ellipsoidal in shape (up to 90-150 μm long), consisting of 32 or 16 cells; vegetative cells spherical, up to 18-20 μm in diam., with several pyrenoids (An Illustrated Guide to Freshwater Zooplankton in Japan, 2000).
Colony ellipsoidal (sometimes nearly spherical), 60-200 μm long, consisting of 32 or 16 or 64 cells; colony of 32 cells consisting by a stacking of 5 chaplets (4 + 8 + 8 + 8 + 4); vegetative cells spherical or nearly spherical, with equal sizes, 12-24 μm in diam.; papilla absent; chloroplast cup-shaped, sometimes radially striated; number of pyrenoids up to 5 (young cells with only one); stigma conspicuous (Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa 9, Chlorophyta I, 1983).
Colony of 32 or 64 cells within a smooth-layered gelatinous envelope 60-120 μm diam.; vegetative cells spherical, 8-10 μm diam., with 2 flagella, 1 chloroplast cup-shaped, 1 pyrenoid (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).
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Colony ovoid or ellipsoid; each cells with many small pyrenoids
Eudorina
E. elegans
col. x μm
Japan, 199?
Eudorina elegans
E. elegans
cell division
Soka
Saitama, 2002
Pandorina
E. elegans
anisogamy
col. 70 x 60 μm
cells 12 μm
Saitama, 2000
Eudorina
E. elegans
Tom-2A-1, axenic
col. 66 x 62 μm
Otawara
Tochigi, 2000
Eudorina
E. elegans ?
col. 50 x 43 μm
cells 9 μm
Koshigaya
Saitama, 2001
Eudorina
E. elegans ?
col. 75 x 8 μm
Japan, 1999
Eudorina
E. elegans
or E. cylindrica ?
st. Kurihashi-1, axenic
col. x μm
Kurihashi
Saitama, 2001
E. elegans
cell μm
Japan, 1998
Eudorina elegans
E. elegans
colony inversion
anisogamy ?
Koma river
Sakado
Saitama, 2003
Eudorina
E. elegans
col. 108 x 90 μm
cells 13-16 μm
Ushiroya Park
Saitama, 2002
Eudorina
E. elegans
col. 62 μm
cells 16 μm
near Town Hall
Shobu
Saitama, 2004
Eudorina
E. elegans
col. 72, 92 μm
cells 11-13, 19 μm
Muneoka
Shiki
Saitama, 2004
Eudorina
E. elegans
col. 75 x 65 μm
cells 10 μm
Oyomi marsh
Hakuba
Nagano, 2004
Eudorina
E. elegans ?
col. 138 x 105 μm
cells 11-19 μm
Takasaka
Saitama, 2002
Eudorina
E. elegans ?
col. 75-125 μm
cells 9-21 μm
Shiken-zaike
Kamikawa
Saitama, 2004

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