Scenedesmaceae
Family of algae
| Scenedesmaceae | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| (unranked): | Viridiplantae |
| Division: | Chlorophyta |
| Class: | Chlorophyceae |
| Order: | Sphaeropleales |
| Family: | Scenedesmaceae Oltmanns, 1904 |
| Genera | |
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Scenedesmaceae is a family of green algae in the order Sphaeropleales. Scenedesmus algae are commonly found in freshwater plankton. The former family Coelastraceae is considered a synonym of Scenedesmaceae.[1]
Description
Algae in the family Scenedesmaceae consist of coenobia with flat or curved shapes, or sometimes three-dimensional clusters.[2]
Genera
Genera in this family include:[3]
- Acutodesmus
- Asterarcys
- Astrocladium
- Chodatodesmus
- Closteriococcus
- Coelastrella
- Coelastropsis
- Coelastrum
- Comasiella
- Crucigeniopsis
- Danubia
- Desmodesmus
- Dimorphococcus
- Enallax
- Flechtneria
- Gilbertsmithia
- Hariotina
- Hofmania
- Hylodesmus
- Komarekia
- Lauterborniella
- Neodesmus
- Pectinodesmus
- Pseudodidymocystis
- Pseudotetrastrum
- Scenedesmus
- Schistochilium
- Schmidledesmus
- Schroederiella
- Scotiellopsis
- Soropediastrum
- Staurogenia
- Steinedesmus
- Tetradesmus
- Tetrallantos
- Tetranephris
- Tetrastrum
- Truncatulus
- Verrucodesmus
- Westella
- Westellopsis
- Willea
- Yadavaea
References
- ^ "Coelastraceae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- ^ Hegewald, Eberhard; Wolf, Matthias; Keller, Alexander; Friedl, Thomas; Krienitz, Lothar (2010). "ITS2 sequence-structure phylogeny in the Scenedesmaceae with special reference to Coelastrum (Chlorophyta, Chlorophyceae), including the new genera Comasiella and Pectinodesmus". Phycologia. 49 (4): 325–335. doi:10.2216/09-61.1. S2CID 85145401.
- ^ "Protist Images: Chlorophyta". Protist Information Server. Retrieved 2007-09-19.
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