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In order to make calculations of the numbers of species of living algae, note that 58 or so species of flowering plants (seagrasses) are included for the present (under the Phylum Magnoliophyta), and 1644 fossil algae, mainly calcium- and silica- secreting forms.

Item Phylum: Chlorophyta

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Name

Authority  

# Species

 

Empire

Eukaryota

Chatton  

24,660

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Kingdom

Plantae

Haeckel  

12,364

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Subkingdom

Viridaeplantae

Cavalier-Smith  

6,231

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Phylum

Chlorophyta

Pascher  

4,039

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Subordinate taxa

Rank

Name

Authority  

# Species

 

Class

Bryopsidophyceae

Bessey  

519

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Chlorophyceae

Wille  

2,238

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Class

Chlorophyta incertae sedis

 

3

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Class

Nephroselmidophyceae

Cavalier-Smith  

23

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Pedinophyceae

Moestrup  

22

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Pleurastrophyceae

K.R. Mattox & K.D. Stewart  

4

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Prasinophyceae

T. Christensen ex P.C. Silva  

135

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Trebouxiophyceae

Friedl  

170

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Ulvophyceae

K.R. Mattox & K.D. Stewart  

925

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Zygnemophyceae

Shameel  

0

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