Division Chlorophyta

Chlorophyta comprises most of the species diversity of green algae. Members of this group inhabit marine, terrestrial, and freshwater environments and are characterized by considerable morphological diversity and a characteristic arrangement of the flagellar apparatus (Moestrup 1978). The core Chlorophyta includes three large and diverse classes: Trebouxiophyceae, Ulvophyceae, Chlorophyceae (so called UTC-clade), and several small classes of generally small marine flagellates (Leliaert et al. 2012; Del Cortona et al. 2020).