Valkanoviella is a monotypic genus of green algae, in the family Chlorococcaceae.

[2] The genus was circumscribed by Pierre Paul Charles Bourrelly in Rev.

The genus name of Valkanoviella is in honour of Alexander Konstantinov Valkanov (1904–1971), who was a Bulgarian zoologist and Hydrobiologist (Mycology, Algology and Protistology).

From 1942 - 196,3 he was a teacher at the Marine Biology Station in Varna, Bulgaria.

Also in 1953, he was Professor at the Zoological Institute and Museum of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia.