WoRMS taxon details
Volvox Linnaeus, 1758
AphiaID: 576718
AphiaID: 576718
| Classification: Biota > Plantae (Kingdom) > Viridaeplantae (Subkingdom) > Chlorophyta (Phylum) > Chlorophyceae (Class) > Volvocales (Order) > Volvocaceae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||
| Rank | Genus | |||||||
| Parent | Volvocaceae | |||||||
| Source |
original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] | |||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Volvox aureus Ehrenberg, 1832 Species Volvox chaos Linnaeus, 1758 Species Volvox dissipatrix (W.R.Shaw) Printz, 1927 Species Volvox ferrisii N.Isaka, Matzuzaki & Nozaki, 2012 Species Volvox globator Linnaeus, 1758 Species Volvox kirkiorum Nozaki, H. Kawai-Toyooka & N.Isaka, 2012 Species Volvox ovalis Pocock ex Nozaki & A.W.Coleman, 2011 Species Volvox powersii (W.R.Shaw) Printz, 1927 Species Volvox spermatosphaera Powers, 1908 Species Volvox tertius Meyer, 1896 Species Volvox bernardii Playfair accepted as Volvox tertius Meyer, 1896 Species Volvox mononae G.M.Smith accepted as Volvox tertius Meyer, 1896 Species Volvox morum O.F.Müller, 1786 accepted as Pandorina morum (O.F.Müller) Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1824 | |||||||
| Links | Published in AlgaeBase  To GenBank To ITIS | |||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:576718 | |||||||
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| Citation: Guiry, Michael D. (2013). Volvox Linnaeus, 1758. In: Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2013). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway (taxonomic information republished from AlgaeBase with permission of M.D. Guiry). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=576718 on 2013-05-20 | ||||||||
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