Chlorophyta Totally Explained

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Chlorophyta, a division of green algae,(External Link

) of mostly aquatic photosynthetic eukaryotic organisms. Like the land plants (bryophytes and tracheophytes), green algae contain chlorophylls a and b, and store food as starch in their plastids. They are related to the Charophyta and Embryophyta (land plants), together making up the Viridiplantae. The division contains both unicellular and multicellular species. While most species live in freshwater habitats and a large number in marine habitats, other species are adapted to a wide range of environments. Watermelon snow, or Chlamydomonas nivalis, of the class Chlorophyceae, lives on summer alpine snowfields. Others live attached to rocks or woody parts of trees. Some lichens are symbiotic relationships with fungi and a green alga. Members of the Chlorophyta also form symbiotic relationships with protozoa, sponges and cnidarians. Some are flagellated and these have an advantage of motility. Some conduct sexual reproduction which is oogamy or isogamy.

Classes

Class Bryopsidophyceae Bessey

Class Chlorophyceae Wille

Class Pedinophyceae Moestrup

Class Pleurastrophyceae Mattox & K. D. Stewart

Class Prasinophyceae T. A. Chr. ex Ø. Moestrup & J. Throndsen

Class Trebouxiophyceae T. Friedl

Class Ulvophyceae K. R. Mattox & K. D. Stewart

Class Caryopoceae Jerry Classification according to Hoek, Mann and Jahns 1995.

Prasinophyceae

Chlorophyceae

Ulvophyceae

Cladophorophyceae

Bryopsipophycese

Dasycladophyceae

Trentepoliophyceae

Pleurastrophyceae (Pleurastrales and Prasiolales)

Klebsormidiophyceae

Zygnematophyceae

Charophyceae Classification according to Bold and Wynne (Introduction to the Algae, Second Edition, Prentice Hall NJ)

Volvocales

Tetrasporales

Chlorococcales

Chlorosarcinales

Ulotrichales

Sphaeropleales

Chaetophorales

Trentepohliales

Oedogoniales

Ulvales

Cladophorales

Acrosiphoniales

Caulerpales

Siphonocladales

DasycladalesFurther Information
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