Trachelomonas volvocina Ehrenberg

Levanets, Anatoliy, Vuuren, Sanet Janse Van, Łukomska-Kowalczyk, Maja & Zakryś, Bożena, 2025, Annotated checklist of photosynthetic freshwater euglenids (Euglenales: Euglenaceae and Phacaceae) from southern Africa, Phytotaxa 710 (1), pp. 22-56 : 39-40

93. Trachelomonas volvocina Ehrenberg

BO: Cronberg et al. 1995 [Okavango Delta; Lake Ngami].— MA: Van Meel 1954 and Cocquyt et al. 1993 [Lake Malawi].— MO: Rino 1969 [Maputo Province: Maputo, garbage pool, abundant, 19 March 1969, J. Rino 369]; [Maputo Province: Namaacha, between Matianin and Macuaca, in an almost dry stream, abundant, 15 October 1968, J. Rino 346], as type and as Trachelomonas volvovina Ehrenberg var. punctata Playfair ; [Inhambane Province: Massinga, culture from material collected in ponds near the Guizugo River, 29 August 1967, S. Rino s.n.].— SA: Fritsch 1918 [Western Cape Province, Orangezicht (now Oranjezicht, Cape Town suburb) above Cape Town, mountain spring in a hollow, forming a small pond, thickly overgrown with a waterweed, 91 m a.s.l., 24 March 1908, leg. E.P. Phillips; Western Cape Province, Cape Town, pond in Municipal Gardens, growing on stems and petioles of Limnanthemum indicum Thw. , 13 April 1908, leg, E.P. Phillips], as forma typica ; Fritsch, Stephens 1921 [Eastern Cape Province, Kentani (now Centane), in pools, partly sheltered by sedges, formed by a slow-running spring, 28 August 1912, leg. A. Pegler; Eastern Cape Province, Kentani (now Centane), in a stream, stagnant through drought, reddish-yellow deposit due to iron bacteria, 24 September 1912, leg. A. Pegler; Eastern Cape Province, King William’s Town (now Qonce), pools on Buffalo River, December 1912, leg. A. Pegler; Eastern Cape Province, Mqanduli District, Quingolo, exposed stream, 21 October 1913, leg. A. Pegler]; Fritsch, Rich 1924 [KwaZulu-Natal Province, Pietermaritzburg, Victoria Bridge, in stagnant water in quarry, 5 June 1915, leg. J.W. Bews; KwaZulu-Natal Province, Pietermaritzburg, Chase Valley, free-floating in quiet pool in stream, 22 May 1915, leg. J.W. Bews]; Huber-Pestalozzi 1929 [Western Cape Province, pool near Caledon, 26 September 1926; Free State Province, vlei near Marseilles, 25 October 1926; Mpumalanga Province, vlei near Breyten, 6 November 1926]; Fritsch, Rich 1930 [Northern Cape Province, Kimberley, dam in Public Gardens, bright-green growth attached to the stones, twigs, etc., August 1916, leg. J.C. Moran; same as the previous sample, but with Spirogyra sp., August 1916, leg. J.C. Moran; Northern Cape Province, Kenilworth Observatory near Kimberley, from sides of evaporating tank in sun, January 1923]; Huber-Pestalozzi 1930 [Western Cape Province, Knysna Forest, near Harkerville, a shallow swamp about 30 m in diameter, slightly brownish water, abundant hydrophytes, leg. G. Huber-Pestalozzi, 7 October 1926; Western Cape Province, Knysna forest, pond (swamp) in Deep Walls (Forest Research), on the road to the forestry experimental station. Pond is about 25 m in diameter and 20 to 40 cm deep, heavily overgrown with Potamogeton and other hydrophytes, no Sphagnum , leg. G. Huber-Pestalozzi, October 1926; Western Cape Province, Knysna forest, Concordia Pool, a swamp about 30 m in diameter in a trough-shaped depression next to the road, overgrown with numerous hydrophytes, leg. G. Huber-Pestalozzi, 8 October 1926]; Hutchinson et al. 1932 [Gauteng, Boksburg District, Brakpan 1, January— March and November 1928; Gauteng, Heidelberg District, Leeuwkraal Kuil 3, 17 March 1928]; Nygaard 1932 [Gauteng Province, Witwatersrand, Rietfontein, algae, free floating with Utricularia sp. , 31 March 1928, coll. 87, leg. G. Evelyn Hutchinson; Gauteng Province, Vereeniging water-works, mud from filter bed, 25 July 1928, coll. 89, leg. M.E. Blenkiron]; Rich 1932 [Gauteng Province, Roodepoort, Florida Lake, six monthly samples from July 1927 to January 1928, April and May 1929, leg. J. Schuurman; Kuil III (no exact location)]; Fritsch, Rich 1937 [Mpumalanga Province, near Belfast, Belfast Pan, 9 October 1913, leg. E.M. Doidge, and same location, gelatinous masses stripped from the stems of Cyperaceae , 22 January 1924, leg. E.M. Doidge]; Hancock 1973 [Gauteng Province, Witwatersrand, Klipspruit]; Venter et al. 2013 [North-West Province, Klerkskraal Dam, 1999-2000, 2010-2011; Boskop Dam, 1999-2000, 2010-2011; Potchefstroom Dam, 1999-2000, 2010-2011]; Janse van Vuuren, Taylor 2015 [Sundays River]; Janse van Vuuren, Levanets 2021 [Limpopo Province, a farm near Louis Trichardt, two small muddy pools situated 1 km from each other, 22°54′54.0″ S, 29°32′34.0″ E and 22°54′34.9″ S, 29°33′03.9″ E, respectively, leg. L. du Preez and R. Svitin, February 2020].— ZA: Thomasson 1966 [Lake Shiwa Ngandu (Lake Young), northern half, plankton collected at 0.5 m depth, water temp. 23ºC, pH 5.8, 1400 m a.s.l., 19 December 1963 (9.15 h), Symoens 0813]; Thomasson 1980 [Lake Kariba, sample 189, station 2626, 28 January 1970].— ZI: Ramberg 1987 [Lake Kariba Sanyati basin].

Note. In Fritsch (1918) T. volvocina f. minuta Fritsch , now regarded as synonym of Chrysococcus minutus (F.E.Fritsch) Nygaard ( Chrysophyceae), was recorded. In Rino (1969: Pl. 5, fig. 4) T. volvocina var. punctata Playfair was recorded. Based on unpublished data it is a synonym of T. volvocina var. volvocina .