
Morphology, phylogeny, and taxonomy of two species of colonial volvocine green algae from Lake Victoria, Tanzania
Author(s) -
Hisayoshi Nozaki,
Ryo Matsuzaki,
Benedicto Boniphace Kashindye,
Charles Nyarongo Ezekiel,
Sophia S. Shaban,
Masanobu Kawachi,
Mitsuto Aibara,
Masato Nikaido
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
plos one
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.99
H-Index - 332
ISSN - 1932-6203
DOI - 10.1371/journal.pone.0224269
Subject(s) - tanzania , algae , biodiversity , taxonomy (biology) , green algae , biology , colonialism , ecology , botany , geography , archaeology , environmental planning
The biodiversity and taxonomy of colonial volvocine green algae are important in ancient lakes in tropical regions. However, few taxonomic studies of these algae have been conducted in African ancient lakes. Here, we describe two species of colonial volvocine green algae in cultures originating from water samples from Lake Victoria, an ancient lake in Africa. One was identified as an undescribed morphological species of Eudorina ; E . compacta sp. nov. This new species can be distinguished from other Eudorina species by its compactly arranged vegetative cells that form a hollow ellipsoidal colony. The other was identified as Colemanosphaera charkowiensis . The genus Colemanosphaera is new to Africa.