Directory of Chlorophyta Resources

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Members of the Chlorophyta are the green algae or green seaweeds. Although traditionally classified as protists they are now generally considered to be part of the plant kingdom. There are two main divisions; the Ulvophycaea, which are mostly marine and multicellular and form filaments or flat blades as in the sea lettuce, and the Chlorophyceae, which mostly live in fresh water and most of which are single-celled. Like other land plants, they contain chlorophyll a and b, with carotenoids as accessory pigments for photosynthesis. It seems likely that the ancestor of all the land plants was a green alga.

Subcategories

• Acrosiphoniaceae
• Bryopsidaceae
• Capsosiphonaceae
• Caulerpaceae
• Characeae
• Chlamydomonadaceae
• Cladophorophyceae
• Codiaceae
• Dasycladaceae
• Goniaceae
• Haematococcaceae
• Hydrodictyaceae
• Oedogoniaceae
• Prasiolaceae
• Scenedesmaceae
• Trentepholiaceae
• Ulotrichaceae
• Ulvaceae
• Volvocaceae
• Zygnemataceae

Resources in This Category

• A Day after the Rain.

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artmar02/dkvorticella.html
  Photographic study by Daigo Kamada of the Vorticella that he found when examining water samples.

• Desmids

  http://www.desmids.nl/
  Images and information about single-celled freshwater green algae in the family Desmidiaceae. In English and Dutch.

• Desmids.com

  http://www.desmids.com/
  Information and images of these microscopic freshwater algae, with a focus on those found in Kent, England.

• Green Algae

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/wimsmall/green.html
  Description of this diverse group of freshwater algae commonly known as chlorophytes, with excellent microscopic images.

• Protist Images: Chlorophyta

  http://protist.i.hosei.ac.jp/PDB/Images/Protista/ChlorophytaE.html
  Images and descriptions.

• The Intertidal Rocky Shore: Coralline Algae and Green Seaweed

  http://www.seafriends.org.nz/enviro/habitat/rsgreen.htm#green
  Photographs of about 6 species of encrusting varieties of red algae and about 10 of green seaweeds that grow around the coasts of New Zealand.

• The Reproduction of Vorticella

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artjun03/wdvorticella.html
  Walter Dioni provides anatomical details of this species and its reproduction, with animated and sequential photographs.

 

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