- Taxonomic Rank: Genus
- Taxonomic Status: Accepted
- Child Taxon: Uroglena volvox Ehrenb. 1934+F305 (Species)
EA Chrysophyte Information - Whitton Code: 09540000
- Shape: Cells rounded to pear-shaped, one flagellum several times longer than the other
- Ecology: Common in all kind of waters
- Life forms: Planktonic; Cells at periphery of the colony
- Distribution: UK, Europe, Western palearctic
- Measure: Organism-Width: Miniumum 3 Micrometre Maximum 7 Micrometre
- Measure: Organism-Length: Miniumum 5 Micrometre Maximum 12 Micrometre
- Notes: Colonies easily broken, cells become deformed in preserved samples
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