Abstract
The coccoid green algal genus Saturnella Mattauch & Pascher is reported for the first time in North America. Saturnella saturnus (Steincke) Fott was collected from a Sphagnum pool, in Pottawatomie County, Kansas (1976) and in the lagg (wetted shoreline) of a leatherleaf bog in Noble County, Indiana (28 July 1993). The only prior reports of this species that are known are from sites in Europe (Czech Republic, Great Britain, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and The Netherlands) and New Zealand.