| Sphaeropleaceae | |
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| British fresh-water algae, exclusive of Desmidieae and Diatomaceae (1882-1884) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Chlorophyta |
| Class: | Chlorophyceae |
| Order: | Sphaeropleales |
| Family: | Sphaeropleaceae Kützing, 1849 |
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Sphaeropleaceae is a family of green algae in the order Sphaeropleales.1
The Sphaeropleaceae consists of solitary cells or filaments of cells. They are coenocytic, and reproduce asexually via zoospores or sexually via anisogamy or oogamy.2
The family has had a convoluted taxonomic history. Depending on the author, it has been placed in one of many orders including Ulotrichales or Chaetophorales.3 Currently, it is placed in its own order, the Sphaeropleales. It appears to be the sister group to the rest of the families in its order.2 It also differs from the other families in the ultrastructure of the basal bodies of their flagella.2
References
References
- Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2007). "Family: Sphaeropleaceae taxonomy browser". AlgaeBase version 4.2 World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. Retrieved 2007-09-25.
- 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. Bibcode:2014JPcgy..50...14F. doi:10.1111/jpy.12118. PMID 26988005. S2CID 24770288.
- Wolf, M.; Buchheim, M.; Hegewald, E.; Krienitz, L.; Hepperle, D. (2002). "Phylogenetic position of the Sphaeropleaceae (Chlorophyta)". Plant Systematics and Evolution. 230 (3–4): 161–171. doi:10.1007/s006060200002. S2CID 37285971.