Marvania

{{Short description|Genus of algae}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Marvania coccoides as Nannochloris coccoides.jpg | image_caption = Marvania coccoides | taxon = Marvania | authority = F.Hindák | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = * ''Marvania geminata'' * ''Marvania coccoides'' * ''Marvania sp. JL 11-11'' }}

'''''Marvania''''' is a genus of green algae in the family Chlorellaceae.<ref>See the NCBI [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Info&id=97104 webpage on Marvania]. Data extracted from the {{cite web | url=https://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/taxonomy/ | title=NCBI taxonomy resources | publisher=National Center for Biotechnology Information | access-date=2007-03-19}}</ref>

The genus name of ''Marvania'' is in honour of Petr Marvan (1929–2022), who was a Czech botanist (algology, mycology and lichenology), and hydrobiologist who worked at the Water Research Institute.<ref>{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen |trans-title=Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2022 | isbn=978-3-946292-41-8 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2022|format=pdf |language=de|location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2022 | s2cid=246307410 |access-date=January 27, 2022}}</ref>

The genus was circumscribed by František Hindák in Arch. Hydrobiol. Suppl. vol.49 on page 268 in 1976.

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Category:Trebouxiophyceae genera Category:Chlorellaceae