Volvulina steinii Playfair
Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Subkingdom Viridaeplantae
Phylum Chlorophyta
Class Chlorophyceae
Order Volvocales
Family Volvocaceae
Genus Volvulina
Publication details
Volvulina steinii Playfair 1915
Type species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Volvulina.
Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Synonym(s)
No synonyms are currently included in AlgaeBase.
Detailed distribution with sources
(as Volvulina steinii Playfair)
Europe: Britain (Pentecost 2002), Russia (Black Sea) (Ettl & Gärtner 1995).
Africa: South Africa (Ettl & Gärtner 1995).
Australia and New Zealand: New South Wales (Day et al. 1995), Northern Territory (Day et al. 1995), Queensland (Day et al. 1995).
Source of synonymy
Pentecost, A. (2002). Order Volvocales. In: The Freshwater Algal Flora of the British Isles. An identification guide to freshwater and terrestrial algae. (John, D.M., Whitton, B.A. & Brook, A.J. Eds), pp. 303-327. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Key references
Day, S.A., Wickham, R.P., Entwisle, T.J. & Tyler, P.A. (1995). Bibliographic check-list of non-marine algae in Australia. Flora of Australia Supplementary Series 4: vii + 276.
UTEX Cultures
UTEX Culture LB 1525 Volvulina steinii
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NCBI Nucleotide Sequences
Created: 11 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 23 September 2004 by M.D. Guiry
Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 305 times since it was created.
References
(Please note: only references with the binomials in the title are included. The information is from the Literature database.)
Belcher, J.H. (1965). Volvulina steinii Playfair from the English Lake District, a new British record. British Phycological Bulletin 2: 501-502.
Hoops, H.J., Long, J.J. & Hile, E.S. (1994). Flagellar apparatus structure is similar but not identical in Volvulina steinii, Eudorina elegans, and Pleodorina illinoisensis (Chlorophyta): implications for the "volvocine evolutionary lineage''. Journal of Phycology 30: 679-689, 33 figs.
Nozaki, H. 1982 (1982). Morphology and reproduction of Japanese Volvulina steinii (Chlorophyta, Volvocales). Journal of Japanese Botany 57: 105-113.
