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Prasinophyceae 
AphiaID: 17329

Classification: Biota > Plantae (Kingdom) > Viridaeplantae (Subkingdom) > Chlorophyta (Phylum)
Authority T. Christensen ex Ø. Moestrup & J. Throndsen, 1988
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Class
Parent Chlorophyta
Synonymised
taxa		  Prasinomonadina (synonym)
 Prasinophyta (synonym)
Sources  basis of record: Algaebase, available online at http://www.algaebase.org [details]

additional source: Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1998). Five Kingdoms: an illustrated guide to the Phyla of life on earth. 3rd edition. Freeman: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-7167-3027-8. xx, 520 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

from synonym: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Parker, S.P. (Ed.) (1982). Synopsis and classification of living organisms. McGraw Hill Book Company: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-07-079031-0. 1166, 1232 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English green flagellates (from synonym)  [details]
Direct child
taxa		 Order Chlorodendrales
Order Halosphaerales
Order Prasinococcales
Order Prasinophyceae incertae sedis
Order Pseudoscourfieldiales
Order Pyramimonadales
Environment marine
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:17329
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  db_admin
2008-10-22 09:06:10Z  checked  Guiry, Michael D.
2010-10-29 09:16:31Z  changed  Guiry, Michael D.
2010-10-29 13:25:36Z  changed  Guiry, Michael D.
  
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  Citation: Guiry, Michael D. (2013). Prasinophyceae. In: Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2013). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway (taxonomic information republished from AlgaeBase with permission of M.D. Guiry). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=17329 on 2013-05-20
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