Biology:Sphaeropleaceae

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Short description: Family of algae

Sphaeropleaceae
British fresh-water algae, exclusive of Desmidieae and Diatomaceae (1882-1884) (20424304451).jpg
British fresh-water algae, exclusive of Desmidieae and Diatomaceae (1882-1884)
Scientific classification e
(unranked): Viridiplantae
Division: Chlorophyta
Class: Chlorophyceae
Order: Sphaeropleales
Family: Sphaeropleaceae
Kützing, 1849
Genera[1]

Sphaeropleaceae is a family of green algae in the order Sphaeropleales.[1]

The Sphaeropleaceae consists of solitary cells or filaments of cells. They are coenocytic, and reproduce asexually via zoospores or sexually via anisogamy or oogamy.[2]

The family has had a convoluted taxonomic history. Depending on the author, it has been placed in one of many orders including Ulotrichales or Chaetophorales.[3] Currently, it is placed in its own order, the Sphaeropleales. It appears to be the sister group to the rest of the families in its order.[2] It also differs from the other families in the ultrastructure of the basal bodies of their flagella.[2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Family: Sphaeropleaceae taxonomy browser". AlgaeBase version 4.2 World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. 2007. http://www.algaebase.org/browse/taxonomy/?id=4951. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Fučíková, Karolina; Lewis, Paul O.; Lewis, Louise A. (2014). "Putting incertae sedis taxa in their place: A proposal for ten new families and three new genera in Sphaeropleales (Chlorophyceae, Chlorophyta)". Journal of Phycology 50 (1): 14–25. doi:10.1111/jpy.12118. PMID 26988005. Bibcode2014JPcgy..50...14F. 
  3. Wolf, M.; Buchheim, M.; Hegewald, E.; Krienitz, L.; Hepperle, D. (2002). "Phylogenetic position of the Sphaeropleaceae (Chlorophyta)". Plant Systematics and Evolution 230 (3–4): 161–171. doi:10.1007/s006060200002. 

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