Ulva, Caulerpa
Bornetella, Dictyosphaeria
A) Gonium pectorale B) Eudorina elegans
C) Pleodorina californica D) Volvox carteri

Taxonavigation edit

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Divisio: Chlorophyta

Subdivisiones = Subphyla: Chlorophytina – Prasinophytina

Classes: Chlorodendrophyceae – Chlorophyceae – Chloropicophyceae – Mamiellophyceae – Nephrophyceae – Palmophyllophyceae – Pedinophyceae – Picocystophyceae – Pyramimonadophyceae – Trebouxiophyceae – Ulvophyceae

Genera (classis, ordo, familia incertae sedis): †Asphaltinella – Chloremys – †Colonella – Ovillaria – Paramastix – Pseudostichococcus – Smithsoniella – Sphaerosiphon – Uvella

Name edit

Chlorophyta Reichenbach, 1834: 5.

References edit

Primary references edit

  • Reichenbach, H.G.L. 1834. Das Pflanzenreich in seinen natürlichen Classen und Familien: entwickelt und durch mehr als Tausend in Kupfer gestochene übersichtliche-bildliche Darstellungen für Anfänger und Freunde der Botanik erläutert. pp. [i]–iv, [1]–62. Leipzig: Verlag der Expedition des Naturfreundes. online Reference page. : 5

Additional references edit

Links edit

  • Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2020. Chlorophyta. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. Accessed 2020-02-06.
  • Chlorophyta – Taxon details on AlgaeBase.


Vernacular names edit

Boarisch: Greahoing
беларуская: Зялёныя водарасці
Deutsch: Grünalgen
English: Green algae
español: Algas Verdes
eesti: Rohevetiktaimed
français: Algues Vertes, Chlorophytes
magyar: Valódi zöldmoszatok
íslenska: Grænþörungar
italiano: Alghe Verdi, Clorofite
日本語: 緑藻植物門(緑色植物門)
한국어: 녹조식물문
Lëtzebuergesch: Gréngalgen
lietuvių: Žaliadumbliai
македонски: Зелени алги
Nederlands: Groenwieren
norsk: grønnalger
polski: Zielenice
português: Algas Verdes, Clorófita
română: Alge verzi
русский: Зелёные водоросли
svenska: grönalger
ไทย: สาหร่ายสีเขียว
Türkçe: Yeşil algler
українська: Зелені водорості
中文: 绿藻门
  For more multimedia, look at Chlorophyta on Wikimedia Commons.

Alternative classifications edit

Reichenbach (1828) edit

Reichenbach, H. G. L. (1828). Conspectus Regni Vegetabilis, [1]

Regni Vegetabilis

Blackman & Tansley (1902) edit

From Blackman, F.E. et Tansley, A.G. (1902). A revision of the classification of the green algae. New Phytology, 1: 17–24, 67-77- 89-96, 114-120, 133-144, 163-168, 189-192, 213-220, 258-264.

Green Algae

Pascher et al. (1913-1936) edit

From Die Süsswasser-Flora: Deutschlands, Österreichs und der Schweiz (oder Die Süsswasser-flora Mitteleuropas), [2].

[see Algae]

Pascher (1914) edit

Pascher, A. (1914). Über Flagellaten und Algen. Ber. dt. Bot. Ges., 32: 136–160, [3].

Pascher (1931) edit

Smith (1938) edit

Cryptogamic Botany, vol. 1, [4].

Division Chlorophyta

Huber-Pestalozzi's Das Phytoplankton des Süßwassers (1961-1983) edit

Huber-Pestalozzi, G. (ed.). Das Phytoplankton des Süßwassers. Schweizerbart, Stuttgart, Werke.

[See Algae]

[Theil 5, 1961, von Huber-Pestalozzi:]

[Teil 6, 1972, von Fott:]

Christensen (1962) edit

  • Christensen, T. 1962. Alger. In: Böcher, T.W., Lange, M. & Sørensen, T. (eds.) Botanik. Bind II. Systematisk botanik. Nr. 2. pp. [1]–178. København: I kommission hos Munksgaard. Reference page

"Alger"

Round (1963) edit

Round, F.E. (1963). The taxonomy of the Chlorophyta. British Phycological Bulletin, 2 (4): 224–235. [5].

Eucaryota

Bourrelly (1966-1970) edit

Bourrelly, P. Les algues d'eau douce. Initiation à la systématique. Éditions Boubée.

  • Tome I. Les algues vertes, 1966, [6]. Réimpressions revues et augmentées, 1972, 1990. Compléments, 1988, [7].
  • Tome II. Les algues jaunes et brunes. Chrysophycées, Phéophycées, Xanthophycées et Diatomées, 1968, [8]. Réimpression revue et augmentée, 1981.
  • Tome III. Les algues bleues et rouges. Les Eugléniens, Péridiniens et Cryptomonadines, 1970, [9]. Réimpression revue et augmentée, 1985, [10].

[Tome I:]

  • Chlorophytes (= Chlorophycophytes)
    • Class 1. Euchlorophycées
      • Order 1. Volvocales
        • Suborder 1. Pyramimonadinées
        • Suborder 2. Volvocinées
        • Suborder 3. Pédinomonadinées
      • Order 2. Tétrasporales
      • Order 3. Chlorococcales
    • Class 2. Ulotrichophycées
      • Order 4. Ulotrichales
      • Order 5. Ulvales
      • Order 6. Chaetophorales
      • Order 7. Trentépohliales
      • Order 8. Oedogoniales
      • Order 9. Sphaeropléales
      • Order 10. Siphonocladales
      • Order 11. Siphonales
      • Order 12. Dichotomosiphonales
    • Class 3. Zygophycées
      • Order 13. Zygnémales
    • Class 4. Charophycées
      • Order 14. Charales

[Tome III:]

  • Chlorophytes
    • Prasinophycées
      • Pyramimonadales (= Prasinovolvocales Chadefaud)
      • Pédinomonadales
      • Halosphaerales (= Prasinococcales Chadefaud)
      • Prasinocladales
    • Chlorophycées
    • Zygophycées
    • Charophycées

Fott (1971) edit

Fott, B. (1971). Algenkunde. 2nd ed. VEB Fischer, Jena, 581 pp., [11], [12].

Chlorophyta

Round (1971) edit

Round, F.E. (1971). "The taxonomy of the Chlorophyta, 2". Brit. phycol. J. 6 (2): 235–264, [13].

Pickett-Heaps (1975) edit

Pickett-Heaps, J.D. (1975). Green Algae. Structure, Reproduction and Evolution in Selected Genera. Sinauer Assoc., Stamford, CT; 606 pages.

green algae

Stewart & Mattox (1975) edit

Stewart, K. D. & Mattox, K. R. (1975). Comparative cytology, evolution and classification of the green algae with some consideration of the origin of other organisms with chlorophylls A and B, [14].

“Green algae”

Stewart & Mattox (1978) edit

Stewart, K. D. & Mattox, K. R. (1978). Structural evolution in the flagellated cells of green algae and land plants. BioSystems 10 (1–2): 145–152.

Chlorophyta

A. Pascher's Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa (1978-) edit

From Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa (or Freshwater Flora of Central Europe), 2nd ed., Adolf Pascher. Some volumes not published.

[See Algae]

Ettl (1981) edit

Ettl, H. (1981). Die neue Klasse Chlamydophyceae, eine natürliche Gruppe der Grünalgen (Chlorophyta). Pl. Syst. Evol. 137, 107–126, [15].

Chlorophyta

Mattox & Stewart (1984) edit

Mattox, K. R. & Stewart, K. D. 1984. Classification of the green algae: a concept based on comparative cytology. Pp. 29‐72, In Irvine, D. E. G. & John, D. M. (eds.), The systematics of Green Algae. The Systematics Association, Special Vol. 27, Academic Press, London.

Bold & Wynne (1985) edit

Bold, H.C. & Wynne, M.J. (1985). Introduction to the algae: structure and reproduction (2nd ed.). Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, [16].

van den Hoek, Stam & Olsen (1988) edit

van den Hoek, C., Stam, W.T., and Olsen, J.L. (1988). The emergence of a new chlorophytan system, and Dr. Kornmann’s contribution thereto. Helgoländer Meeresuntersuchungen, 42: 339–383, [17].

Chlorophyta

Melkonian in Margulis et al. (1990) edit

Melkonian, M., 1990. 32. Phylum Chlorophyta: Introduction to the Chlorophyta. In: Margulis, L., J.O. Corliss, M. Melkonian, D.J. Chapman (ed.). Handbook of Protoctista. Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Boston, p. 597-599. See Brands, S.J. (1989-2015), [18].

Kingdom Protoctista

van den Hoek, Stam & Olsen (1992) edit

van den Hoek, C., Stam, W.T. & Olsen, J.L. (1992). The Chlorophyta: Systematics and phylogeny. In: Stabenau, H. (Ed.), Phylogenetic Changes in Peroxisomes of Algae: Phylogeny of Plant Peroxisomes. pp. 330-368. University of Oldenburg, Germany, [19].

Chlorophyta

van den Hoek, Mann and Jahns (1995) edit

van den Hoek, C., Mann, D. G., & Jahns, H. M. (1995): Algae. An Introduction to Phycology. 1st ed. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, [20].

Chlorophyta

[In a note added in proof, an alternative classification is presented for the class Chlorophyceae:]

Reviers (2002-2003) edit

Reviers, B. de (2002-2003). Biologie et phylogénie des algues. Tome 1, 352 p. Tome 2, 255 p. Paris: Belin.

[Note: (*) indicates divisions and classes classified as “algae” at a given time; some non-algal groups not listed]

Eukaryota

Lewis & McCourt (2004) edit

Pombert et al. (2005) edit

Pombert, J.-F. et al. (2005). The Chloroplast Genome Sequence of the Green Alga... Mol. Biol. Evol. 22(9) 1903–1918, [21].

Chlorophyta

Adl et al. (2012) edit

The Revised Classification of Eukaryotes, [22].

Eukaryota

[Notes: M, monotypic group with only one described species; P, paraphyletic group; R, ribogroup assembled from phylogenetic studies.]

Leliaert et al. (2012) edit

Ruggiero et al. (2015) edit