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