Colorless Flagellates –
Amoebozoa (Part), Cryptista (Part), Discoba (Part), Alveolates (Part), Stramenopiles (Part)

Observations on Volvox aureus

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Volvox aureus Ehrenberg 1832

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym: n.a.

Add’l Synonyms: Volvox minor F.Stein 1854
                               Volvox dioicus F.J.Cohn 1875
                               Volvox dioica var. lismorensis Playfair ????
                               Volvox lismorensis Playfair 1915
                               Janetosphaera aurea (Ehrenberg) W.R.Shaw 1922

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Sampling date 09/2010. Scale bars indicate 250 µm (1), 100 µm (2).

Two images.

First:	Cell colonies with daugther colonies. One parent colony on the lower right disintegrates and releases daughter colonies.
Second:	Close-up.

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Place name: Lake Constance vicinity of Bodman (Germany)
Latitude: 47.796494 Longitude: 9.047656

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF images.

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Sampling date 09/2010. Scale bars indicate 100 µm (1,2), 50 µm (3).

Three images.

First and second:	Disintegrated parent colony with zygotes.
Third:	Closeup of a zygote. The mucilaginous sheath around the zygote is visible.

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Place name: Lake Constance vicinity of Bodman (Germany)
Latitude: 47.796494 Longitude: 9.047656

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF images.

Sampling date 09/2010. Scale bar indicates 25 µm.

An association of Volvox microgametes (spermatozoids).

Place name: Lake Constance vicinity of Bodman (Germany)
Latitude: 47.796494 Longitude: 9.047656

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF images.

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Observations on Volvox aureus

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