Chlorophyta

Chlorophyta
Temporal range:
"Siphoneae" from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur, 1904
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: CAM
Clade: Archaeplastida
Clade: Viridiplantae
Division: Chlorophyta
Reichenbach, 1828, emend. Pascher, 1914, emend. Lewis & McCourt, 2004
Classes
Diversity
7,934 species
(6,851 living, 1,083 fossil)
Synonyms
  • Chlorophycophyta Papenfuss 1946
  • Chlorophycota
  • Chlorophytina
  • Chlorophyllophyceae
  • Isokontae
  • Stephanokontae

Chlorophyta is a division of green algae informally called chlorophytes.

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