Neochloridaceae

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Divisio: Chlorophyta
Subphylum: Chlorophytina
Classis: Chlorophyceae
Ordo: Sphaeropleales

Familia: Neochloridaceae

Genera: Botryosphaerella – Chlorotetraëdron – Echinosphaeridium – Golenkinia – Neochloris – Poloidion
Name

Neochloridaceae Ettl & Komárek, 1982.

Type: Neochloris Starr

References

Ettl, H. & Komárek, J. 1982. Was versteht man unter dem Begriff «coccale Grünalgen»? (Systematische Bemerkungen zu den Grünalgen II). Algological Studies/Archiv für Hydrobiologie, Supplement 29: 345–374. Reference page.
Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2020. Neochloridaceae. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. Accessed 2020-03-19.
Neochloridaceae in the World Register of Marine Species, accessed on 2020-03-19

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

Neochloridaceae consists of aquatic, coccoid algae. The cells are spherical or with complex polyhedral shapes. Chloroplasts have pyrenoids that are surrounded by continuous starch sheaths. They reproduce via asexual reproduction, where the cell forms aplanospores or zoospores; the zoospores bear two flagella.[2]

Phylogenetically, Neochloridaceae is sister to the family Hydrodictyaceae, a family which contains common and well-known algae such as Pediastrum.[3]
References

See the NCBI webpage on Neochloridaceae. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
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. S2CID 24770288.
Buchheim, Mark; Buchheim, Julie; Carlson, Tracy; Braband, Anke; Hepperle, Dominik; Krienitz, Lothar; Wolf, Matthias; Hegewald, Eberhard (2005). "Phylogeny of the Hydrodictyaceae (Chlorophyceae): inferences from rDNA data". Journal of Phycology. 41 (5): 1039–1054. doi:10.1111/j.1529-8817.2005.00129.x. S2CID 83698514.