Gonium

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Gonium is a genus of colonial algae, a member of the order Volvocales. Typical colonies have 4 to 16 cells, all the same size, arranged in a flat plate, with no anterior-posterior differentiation. In a colony of 16 cells, four are in the center, and the other 12 are on the four sides, three each.

References

• Pennak, Robert W (1978). Fresh-Water Invertebrates of the United States, Second Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 43. ISBN 0-471-04249-8.