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Chlorophyceae
The Chlorophyceae are one of the classes of green algae, distinguished manly on the basis of ultrastructural morphology. The following orders are typically recognised:
- Dunaliellales[?]
- Chlamydomonadales[?] (e.g. Chlamydomonas)
- Volvocales (e.g. Volvox)
- Chlorococcales[?] (e.g. Chlorella[?])
- Oedogoniales[?] (e.g. Oedogonium[?])
- Sphaeropleales[?]
- Chaetophorales[?]
- Microsporales[?]
- Tetrasporales[?] (e.g. Tetraspora[?])
In older classifications, the term Chlorophyceae is sometimes used to apply to all the green algae except the Charales, and the internal division is considerably different.
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