Gonium is a genus of colonial algae, a member of the order Chlamydomonadales. Typical colonies have 4 to 16 cells, all the same size, arranged in a flat plate, with no anterior-posterior differentiation. In a colony of 16 cells, four are in the center, and the other 12 are on the four sides, three each. A description by G.M. Smith (1920, p. 94): Asexual reproduction by simultaneous division of all cells in the colony to form , or by a formation of 2-4 zoospores in each cell. Sexual reproduction isogamous, by a fusion of biciliate zoogametes.