Higher Classification: > Kingdom Plantae > Subkingdom Viridiplantae > Division Chlorophyta > Subdivision Chlorophytina > Class Ulvophyceae > Order Cladophorales > Family Valoniaceae > Genus Valonia

Valonia ventricosa J.Agardh, 1887

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Valonia*	C.Agardh, 1823	accepted genus name
*Ventricaria*	J.L.Olsen & J.A.West, 1988	synonym

Species group names

*Ventricaria ventricosa*	(J.Agardh) J.L.Olsen & J.A.West, 1988	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: bubble algae; sailor’s eyeball

Japanese: オオバロニア

Literature

original description	Agardh, J.G. (1887). Till algernes systematik. Nya bidrag. (Femte afdelningen.). Acta Universitatis Lundensis. 23(2): 1-174, 5 plates.
basis of record	Isaac, W.E. (1967). Marine Botany of the Kenya Coast 1. A First List of Kenya Marine Algae. Journal of East Afr. Nat. Hist. Soc. XXXVI 2 (114): 75 - 84.
additional source	Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. searched on YYYY-MM-DD.

Genbank

Taxonomy

Published in AlgaeBase

Citation

Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway (taxonomic information republished from AlgaeBase with permission of M.D. Guiry). Valonia ventricosa J.Agardh, 1887. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:211680