Algal and Protist Phyla is a Browse By group of the Nature Atlas that gathers the phyla of algae and single-celled eukaryotes, green and red algae, ciliates, apicomplexans, dinoflagellates and amoebae. An entry belongs here when its own cited article states that it is a phylum of algae or protists. It excludes animal, fungal and prokaryote phyla. Members are placed by the classification their cited article gives, not by common name or appearance alone.
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Chlorophyta (Wikipedia)
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Chlorophyta or chlorophytes is a major division of green algae, and is sister taxon to the other major division Charophyta (a paraphyletic group of predominantly freshwater green algae, which form the monophyletic clade Streptophyta after including all land plants) as well as the proposed basal clade
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Red algae, or Rhodophyta (, ; from Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon) 'rose' and φυτόν (phutón) 'plant'), make up one of the oldest and largest phyla of eukaryotic algae, containing over 7,000 recognized species within over 900 genera amidst ongoing taxonomic revisions.
View the Source Euglenozoa (Wikipedia)
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Euglenozoa are a large group of flagellate Discoba.
View the Source Wikipedia: Ciliate
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The ciliates are a group of alveolates characterized by the presence of hair-like organelles called cilia, which are identical in structure to eukaryotic flagella, but are in general shorter and present in much larger numbers, with a different undulating pattern than flagella.
View the Source Wikipedia: Apicomplexa
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The Apicomplexa (also called Apicomplexia; single: apicomplexan) are organisms of a large phylum of mainly parasitic alveolates.
View the Source Wikipedia: Ochrophyte
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Ochrophytes, also known as heterokontophytes or stramenochromes, are a phylum of algae.
View the Source Wikipedia: Oomycete
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The oomycetes (), or Oomycota, form a distinct phylogenetic lineage of fungus-like eukaryotic microorganisms within the Stramenopiles.
View the Source Wikipedia: Amoebozoa
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Amoebozoa is a major taxonomic group containing about 2,400 described species of amoeboid protists, often possessing blunt, fingerlike, lobose pseudopods and tubular mitochondrial cristae.
View the Source Wikipedia: Cercozoa
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Cercozoa is a phylum of diverse single-celled eukaryotes.
View the Source Wikipedia: Haptophyte
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The haptophytes, classified either as the Haptophytina, Haptophyta or Prymnesiophyta (named for Prymnesium), are a clade of algae that can produce minerals.
View the Source Wikipedia: Dinoflagellate
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The dinoflagellates (from Ancient Greek δῖνος (dînos) 'whirling' and Latin flagellum 'whip, scourge'), also called dinophytes, are a monophyletic group of single-celled eukaryotes constituting the phylum Dinoflagellata and are usually considered protists.
View the Source Radiolaria - Wikipedia
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The Radiolaria, also called Radiozoa and informally called radiolarians, are unicellular eukaryotes of diameter 0.1-0.2 mm that produce intricate mineral skeletons, typically with a central capsule dividing the cell into the inner and outer portions of endoplasm and ectoplasm.
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