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Chlorophyceae: Volvocales: Volvocaceae
Volvocida: Volvocina: Volvocidae

Eudorina
Ehrenberg 1832 (An Illustrated Guide to Freshwater Zooplankton in Japan, 2000)
Ehrenberg 1831 (Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa 9, Chlorophyta I, 1983)
Ehrenberg 1830 (John et al. eds. 2002)

Family: Colonies consisting of a fixed number of cells (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).
Genus: Colonies composed of 16, 32, 64 or 128 (mostly 32) cells; 2-layered gelatinous envelope; mamillations anterior or posterior; cells spherical to ovoid with 2 equal-length apical flagella; eyespot present; sexual reproduction by anisogamy (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
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Colony ovoid or ellipsoid; each cells with many small pyrenoids
Eudorina
E. elegans
15 samples
col. 50-138 μm
199?-2004
Eudorina
E. elegans
15 samples
col. 50-138 μm
199?-2004
Eudorina elegans
E. elegans
15 samples
col. 50-138 μm
199?-2004
Eudorina elegans
E. elegans
15 samples
col. 50-138 μm
199?-2004
Colony ovoid or ellipsoid; each cell with a single pyrenoid
Eudorina
E. unicocca
col. 108 x 90 μm
cells 13-16 μm
Matsumoto
Nagano, 2001
Eudorina
E. unicocca
col. 42 x 36 μm
cells 9 μm
Ikenokochi marsh
Tsuruga
Fukui, 2004
Colony cylindrical; each cell with a large and surrounding small pyrenoids
Eudorina
E. cylindrica
col. 35 x 27 μm
near Karakemi m.
Omachi
Nagano, 2005
Eudorina
E. cylindrica
col. 75 x 50 μm
cell 11 μm φ
Japan, 1997
Eudorina
E. cylindrica?
or E. elegans ?
col. 35 x 27 μm
Furuyakami
Kawagoe
Saitama, 2004
Eudorina
E. cylindrica ?
st. Gmt-11, axenic
col. 80 x 68 μm
cells 12-14 μm
Gunma, 2001
Eudorina
E. cylindrica ?
col. 52 x 45 μm
cells 10 μm
Ikenokochi marsh
Tsuruga
Fukui, 2004
Eudorina
E. cylindrica ?
col. 58 x 45 μm
cells 10-12 μm
stock Gmt-13, axenic
Gunma, 2001
Colony ellipsoid; cellls of anterior chaplet smaller than others
Eudorina
E. illinoisensis
col. 140 x 105 μm
cells 12, 17 μm φm
near Todoroki g.l.
Kawasaki
Kanawaga, 2004
Eudorina unicocca
E. illinoisensis ?
col. 180 x 150 μm
cells 18-20 μm φm
Yokonuma
Sakado
Saitama, 2004
Eudorina
Eudorina sp.
col. 138 x 105 μm
cells 11-19 μm
Tatebayashi
Gunma, 2001
Eudorina
Eudorina sp.
parasitic amoeba ?
cells 11-19 μm
Tatebayashi
Gunma, 2001

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Eudorina
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