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Phylum (Division) · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Chlorophyta

green algae

WoRMS 801key worms:801
Silhouette · Sergio A. Muñoz-Gómez · CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Chlamydomonas

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Chlorophyta
Photo · lizlombriz · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Chlorophyta or chlorophytes is a major division of green algae, and is sister taxon to the other major division Charophyta as well as the proposed basal clade Prasinodermophyta, together with whom they form the major primary algae clade Viridiplantae.W CalCOFI holds 8 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1996 and 2022, across 2 taxa under it.R

8
observations
2,454
records
1996–2022
years
1
datasets
1
species under it

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 1 taxon

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.14, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:801")