Chaetophoraceae is a
family
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of
green algae
The green algae (: green alga) are a group of chlorophyll-containing autotrophic eukaryotes consisting of the phylum Prasinodermophyta and its unnamed sister group that contains the Chlorophyta and Charophyta/ Streptophyta. The land plants ...
in the order
Chaetophorales
Chaetophorales is an order of green algae in the class Chlorophyceae. Algae in the order Chaetophorales consist of filamentous, branched algae. The thalli have two parts, a prostrate and upright section and the filaments are variously branched. T ...
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Members of the family are variously semi-terrestrial to aquatic in habitat, and consist of branched filaments in two parts, a prostrate system of filaments and an erect system of filaments. During germination, the zoospore is erect and divides parallel to the substrate. The prostrate system develops from successive divisions of the original zoospore cell, and consists of filaments with square cells attached to the surface, or long thin rhizoids which penetrate the surface. The erect system consists of one, two or several erect branched filaments, sometimes terminating in long hairs.
Genera
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Arthrochaete''
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Caespitella''
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Cedercreutziella''
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Chaetomnion''
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Chaetonemopsis''
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Chaetophora''
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Chaetophoropsis''
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Chloroclonium''
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Chlorotylium''
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Choreoclonium''
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Crenacantha
''Crenacantha'' is a genus of green algae in the family Chaetophoraceae
Chaetophoraceae is a family (biology), family of green algae in the order Chaetophorales.
Members of the family are variously semi-terrestrial to aquatic in habitat, and ...
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Diaphragma''
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Didymosporangium''
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Draparnaldia
''Draparnaldia'' is a genus of freshwater green algae in the family Chaetophoraceae. It forms branched chains of cells, termed filaments, surrounded by mucilage. It is a cosmopolitan distribution, cosmopolitan genus with wide distribution and it ...
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Draparnaldioides''
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Elaterodiscus
''Elaterodiscus'' is a genus of green algae in the family Chaetophoraceae
Chaetophoraceae is a family (biology), family of green algae in the order Chaetophorales.
Members of the family are variously semi-terrestrial to aquatic in habitat, an ...
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Endoclonium
''Endoclonium'' is a genus of green algae in the family Chaetophoraceae
Chaetophoraceae is a family (biology), family of green algae in the order Chaetophorales.
Members of the family are variously semi-terrestrial to aquatic in habitat, and ...
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Endophyton
''Endophyton'' is a genus of filamentous green algae in the family Chaetophoraceae. As its name suggests, is an endophyte of marine red and brown algae macroalgae.
''Endophyton'' consists of uniseriate filaments that penetrate the medulla of the ...
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Entodictyon''
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Epibolium
''Epibolium'' is a genus of green algae in the family Chaetophoraceae
Chaetophoraceae is a family (biology), family of green algae in the order Chaetophorales.
Members of the family are variously semi-terrestrial to aquatic in habitat, and co ...
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Gloeoplax''
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Gongrosira
''Gongrosira'' is a genus of green algae in the family Chaetophoraceae. Species of this genus often form dense green cushions on stones, shells, or aquatic plants; rarely they are terrestrial.
''Gongrosira'' consists of a prostrate and an erect ...
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Gongrosirella
''Gongrosirella'' is a genus of green algae in the family Chaetophoraceae
Chaetophoraceae is a family (biology), family of green algae in the order Chaetophorales.
Members of the family are variously semi-terrestrial to aquatic in habitat, an ...
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Hormotila
''Hormotila'' is a genus of green algae in the family Chaetophoraceae. The genus was circumscribed by Antonino Borzì in 1883.
The type species of ''Hormotila'', '' Hormotila mucigena'', as originally illustrated by Borzì, was a heterogenous a ...
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Hydraeophycus''
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Ireksokonia
''Ireksokonia'' is a genus of green algae in the family Chaetophoraceae. It contains a single species, ''Ireksokonia formosa'', which is endemic to Lake Baikal. It is similar to '' Stigeoclonium'', but is generally larger and has a reticulate chl ...
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Iwanoffia
''Iwanoffia'' is a genus of green algae in the family Chaetophoraceae. It contains a single species, ''Iwanoffia terrestris'', found on damp soil in the USSR
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Uni ...
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Jaagiella
''Jaagiella'' is a genus of green algae in the family Chaetophoraceae.
The genus name of ''Jaagiella'' is in honour of Otto Jaag (1900-1978), who was a Swissr (Hydro-)Biology (botanist, interested in Algology and Mykology) and was Professor of H ...
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Klebahniella''
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Kymatotrichon''
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Leptosiropsis''
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Lochmiopsis''
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Myxonema''
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Myxonemopsis''
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Nayalia''
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Periplegmatium''
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Pilinella''
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Pleurangium''
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Pleurococcus
''Pleurococcus'' is a genus of green algae in the family Chaetophoraceae that are spherical in shape with a thick cell wall to protect themselves against excessive water loss. They can be found alone or in bunches together forming a slimy layer a ...
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Pseudochaete''
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Skvortzoviothrix''
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Sporocladopsis''
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Stigeoclonium''
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Streptochlora''
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Thamniochloris''
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Thamniolum''
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Trichodiscus''
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Tumulofilum''
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Uvulifera''
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Zoddaea''
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Zygomitus''
Formerly included genera
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Cloniophora''
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Trichophilus
''Trichophilus'' is a genus of green algae. ''Trichophilus welckeri'' is found growing in the fur of certain sloth species and is believed to provide them with camouflage
Camouflage is the use of any combination of materials, coloration, ...
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References
Chlorophyceae families
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