Volvocales

Translingual

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Etymology

Volvox +‎ -ales

Proper noun

Volvocales

1. A taxonomic order within the class Chlorophyceae – many green algae, now usually Chlamydomonadales.

Synonyms

• (order): Chlamydomonadales

Hypernyms

• (order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Chlorophyta – infrakingdom; Chlorophyta – phylum; Chlorophyceae - class

Hyponyms

• (order): Dunaliellaceae, Goniaceae, Haematococcaceae, Phacotaceae, Sphondylomoraceae, Tetrabaenaceae, Volvocaceae (familes)
  • Chlamydomonadaceae (now assigned to Chlamydomonadales)

References

• Volvocales on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Volvocales on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Chlamydomonadales on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Volvocales at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Chlamydomonadales placement and circumscription (click icon for description) at AlgaeBase
• Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, →DOI