210.00.00 ChlorophytaNames: Green algae; Chlorophytes.
Botany: 7000 species; mostly aquatic photosynthetic eukaryota; contain chlorophylls a and b; store food as starch in their plastids.
TaxonomyIn older classifications
Chlorophyta refers to a highly paraphyletic group of all the green algae within the green plants,
Viridiplantae.
Chlorophyta1.
Bryopsidophyceae2. Chlorophyceae
3. Pedinophyceae
4. Pleurastrophyceae
5. Prasinophyceae
6. Trebouxiophyceae
7.
Ulvophyceae