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Volvox perglobator J.H.Powers (1908)

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Last record: 1944 (Smith, 1944) or after 1944 (Hanschen et al., 2018a)

Rediscovered on 27 October 2012 (Hanschen et al., 2018a)

 

Distribution

Arizona (Reid Park, Tucson), Nebraska (Lincoln) & Massachusetts (Back Bay Fens, Boston & Woods Hole, Barnstable County), USA

Type locality: "Lincoln, Neb." (Powers, 1908:163)

 

Records of the species from New Zealand (Chapman et al., 1957; Broady et al., 2012) are uncertain as the species was reported as globally rediscovered by (Hanschen et al., 2018) and has been stated as being endemic to the USA more recently again (Kimbara et al., 2019).

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

https://macroalgae.org/portal/collections/list.php?taxa=Volvox%20perglobator&usethes=1&taxontype=2

 

Media

https://macroalgae.org/portal/collections/list.php?taxa=Volvox%20perglobator&usethes=1&taxontype=2

 

References

Original scientific description:

Powers, J. H. (1908). Further studies in Volvox, with descriptions of three new species. Trans. Am. Microsc. Soc. 28: 141-175, 4 pls.

 

Other references:

Broady, P. A., Flint, E. A., Nelson, W. A., Cassie Cooper, V., De Winton, M. D. and Novis, P. M. (2012). Phylum Chlorophyta and Charophyta: green algae. In: New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume Three. Kingdoms Bacteria, Protozoa, Chromista, Plantae, Fungi. (Gordon, D.P. Eds), pp. 347-381. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press.

Chapman, V. J., Thompson, R. H. and Segar, E. C. M. (1957). Check list of the fresh-water algae of New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 84: 695-747.

M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M. D. and Guiry, G. M. (2018). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 29 September 2018.

Hanschen, Erik R. et al. (2018a). On the rediscovery of Volvox perglobator (Volvocales, Chlorophyceae) and the evolution of outcrossing from self-fertilization. Evol. Ecol. Res. 19: 299-318.

Hanschen, Erik R. et al. (2018b). Repeated evolution and reversibility of self-fertilization in the volvocine green algae. Evolution 72(2): 386-398. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13394

Kimbara, R., Isaka, N., Matsuzaki, R., Kawai-Toyooka, H., Kawachi, M. and Nozaki, H. (2019). Morphological and molecular identification of the dioecious African species Volvox rousseletii (Chlorophyceae) in the water column of a Japanese lake based on field-collected and cultured materials. PLoS ONE 14(8): e0221632. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221632

Smith, G. M. (1944). A comparative study of the species of Volvox. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 63(4): 265-310. https://doi.org/10.2307/3223302

https://vanishingflora.proboards.com/thread/4039/volvox-perglobator

 

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