Pavlova (alga)

''Pavlova'' is a genus of algae belonging to the family Pavlovaceae.

The genus has cosmopolitan distribution.

The genus name of ''Pavlova'' is in honour of Anna Pavlova, Anna Pawlowna Pawlowa (1881–1931), who was a Russian prima ballerina of the late 19th and the early 20th centuries. This is because "the movement of the type species, ''Pavlova gyrans'', is positively balletic".

The genus was circumscription (taxonomy), circumscribed by Roger William Butcher in J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. U.K. vol.31 on page 183, fig. 35-38 in 1952.

Species

As accepted by Algaebase;
*''Pavlova calceolata''
*''Pavlova ennorea''
*''Pavlova granifera''
*''Pavlova gyrans''
*''Pavlova helicata''
*''Pavlova hommersandii''
*''Pavlova lutheri''
*''Pavlova mesolychnon''
*''Pavlova noctivaga''
*''Pavlova pinguis''
*''Pavlova salina''
*''Pavlova virescens''
*''Pavlova viridis''

References

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Haptophyte genera