Volvocales
Translingual
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Etymology
Volvox + -ales
Proper noun
Volvocales
- A taxonomic order within the class Chlorophyceae – many green algae, now usually Chlamydomonadales.
Synonyms
- (order): Chlamydomonadales
Hypernyms
- (order): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Plantae - kingdom; Viridiplantae - subkingdom; Chlorophyta - infrakingdom; Chlorophyta - phylum; Chlorophyceae - class
Hyponyms
- (order): Dunaliellaceae, Goniaceae, Haematococcaceae, Phacotaceae, Sphondylomoraceae, Tetrabaenaceae, Volvocaceae (familes)
- Chlamydomonadaceae (now assigned to Chlamydomonadales)
References
Volvocales on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Volvocales on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Chlamydomonadales on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Volvocales at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Chlamydomonadales placement and circumscription (click icon for description) at AlgaeBase
- Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521