Chlamydomonas


Classification

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                                                              Handbook of
               Botany                Zoology                  Protoctista         Cavalier-Smith
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Kingdom:      Plantae                Animalia                 Protoctista         Plantae
Division/     Chlorophyta
  Phylum:                            Sarcomastigophora        Chlorophyta         Chlorophyta
Class:        Chlorophyceae          Phytomastigophorea       Chlorophyceae       Chlorophyceae
Order:        Volvocales             Volvocida                Volvocales          Volvocales
Family:       Volvocaceae            Chlamydomonadinae        Volvocaceae         Volvocaceae
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Access the NCBI Taxonomy classification of Chlorophyceae.

Some botanists place Chlamydomonas in its own family, the Chlamydomonadaceae. The NCBI taxonomy does this.


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