Volvox

See also: volvox

Translingual

Volvox

Etymology

New Latin, from Latin volvō (“roll”), coined by Linnaeus, 1758.

Proper noun

Volvox m

A taxonomic genus within the family Volvocaceae – certain freshwater chlorophytes that form spherical colonies of up to 50,000 cells; found in ponds and ditches. [from 1758]

Hypernyms

(genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Plantae - kingdom; Viridiplantae - subkingdom; Chlorophyta - infrakingdom; Chlorophyta - phylum; Chlorophyceae - class; Volvocales/Chlamydomonadales - order; Volvocaceae - family

Hyponyms

(genus): Volvox africanus, Volvox aureus, Volvox carteri, Volvox dissipatrix, Volvox globator, Volvox lismorensis, Volvox perglobator, Volvox spermatosphaera, Volvox tertius, Volvox weismannia (species)

Further reading

Volvox on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Volvox on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Volvox on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Volvox on Integrated Taxonomic Information System.

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