''Chaetosphaeridium'' is a genus of
green algae
The green algae (singular: green alga) are a group consisting of the Prasinodermophyta and its unnamed sister which contains the Chlorophyta and Charophyta/Streptophyta. The land plants (Embryophytes) have emerged deep in the Charophyte alga as ...
. Several classifications have been proposed. Its traditional classification is in the order
Coleochaetales
Coleochaetaceae is a family of algae. It is the only family in the Coleochaetales, an order of parenchymous charophyte algae, that includes some of the closest multicellular relatives of land plants.
They questionably include the fossil genus ...
, related to the genus ''
Coleochaete
''Coleochaete'' is a genus of parenchymatous charophyte green algae in the order Coleochaetales. They are haploid, reproduce both sexually and asexually, and have true multicellular organisation, with plasmodesmata communicating between adjacen ...
''.
AlgaeBase
AlgaeBase is a global species database of information on all groups of algae, both marine and freshwater, as well as sea-grass.
History
AlgaeBase began in March 1996, founded by Michael Guiry. Text was copied from this source, which is avai ...
places it in the order
Chaetosphaeridiales
Chaetosphaeridiales is an order of green algae.
References
Charophyta
Green algae orders
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.
Species
Species include:
* ''
C. globosum''
* ''
C. huberi''
* ''
C. minus''
* ''
C. ovalis''
* ''
C. pringsheimii''
GBIF
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is an international organisation that focuses on making scientific data on biodiversity available via the Internet using web services. The data are provided by many institutions from around the ...
only accepts ''Chaetosphaeridium globosum'', ''Chaetosphaeridium ovalis'' and ''Chaetosphaeridium pringsheimii''.
References
Charophyta
Charophyta genera
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