Chlorophyta Temporal range:
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"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[2][3][4] |
Classes[5] | |
Diversity | |
7,934 species (6,851 living, 1,083 fossil)[6] | |
Synonyms | |
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Chlorophyta (from Greek chloros 'yellow green' and phyton 'plant')[8] is a division of green algae informally called chlorophytes.[9]