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Yamagishiella
Scientific classification
Clade:	Viridiplantae
Division:	Chlorophyta
Class:	Chlorophyceae
Order:	Chlamydomonadales
Family:	Volvocaceae
Genus:	Yamagishiella Hisayoshi Nozaki
Species
Yamagishiella unicocca

Yamagishiella is a genus of colonial green algae in the family Volvocaceae. Yamagishiella differs from Eudorina by its isogamous sexual reproduction, but the vegetative morphology and asexual reproduction characteristics of these two genera (especially Y. unicocca and E. unicocca) are indistinguishable.

References

1. See the NCBI webpage on Yamagishiella. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
2. Nozaki, H. Flagellated Green Algae: Volvocaceae, Yamagishiella. In: Freshwater algae of North America: ecology and classification. John D. Wehr, Robert G. Sheath, eds. p 242.

External links

• Yamagishiella - Description with pictures

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