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Chlorophyta

green algae

Phylum (Division)accepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 801key worms:801

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

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:801")

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.11.05, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it not on record

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

Under it 1 taxon
Lineage 2 ranks · Plantae to Viridiplantae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

WikidataiNaturalistGBIF

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

Cite the release, v2026.11.05

Cite the release, v2026.11.05; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗