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Classification

Opalinata

 

 

Bicosoecida

Genera: Adriamonas, Bicosoeca, Cafeteria, Cyathobodo, Pseudobodo, Pseudodendromonas, Siluania.

 

Labyrinthulomycetes

 

 

Hyphochytriales

 

 

Peronosporomycetes

Genera: Achyla, Leptomitus, Peronospora, Pythiogeton, Rhipidium, Saprolegnia. Uncertain position: Ciliomyces, Crypticola, Ectrogella, Eurychasma, Haptoglossa, Lagena, Lagenisma, Myzocytiopsis, Olpidiopsis, Pontisma, Pythiella, Rozellopsis, Sirolpidium.

 

Actinophryidae

Genera: Actinophrys, Actinosphaerium.

 

Bolidomonas

 

 

Chrysophyceae

 

 

Dictyochophyceae

 

 

Eustigmatales

Genera: Botryochloropsis, Eustigmatos, Monodopsis, Nannochloropsis, Pseudocharaciopsis, Vischeria.

 

Pelagophyceae

 

 

Phaeothamniophyceae

Genera: Phaeothamnion, Pleurochloridella.

 

Pinguiochrysidales

Genera: Glossomastix, Phaeomonas, Pinguiochrysis, Pinguiococcus, Polypodochrysis.

 

Raphidophyceae

Genera: Fibrocapsa, Goniostomum, Haramonas, Heterosigma, Merotricha, Olisthodiscus, Vacuolaria.

 

Schizocladia

 

 

Synurales

Genera: Chrysodidymus, Mallomonas, Synura, Tesselaria.

 

Xanthophyceae

Genera: Botrydium, Bumilleriopsis, Characiopsis, Chloromeson, Heterococcus, Ophiocytium, Sphaerosorus, Tribonema, Vaucheria, Xanthonema.

 

Phaeophyceae (brown seaweeds)

Growth forms are filamentous and parenchymatous and include the large kelps that wash up onto Cape Peninsula beaches. The brown colour is due to the pigment fucoxanthin; chlorophyll a and c and carotene are also present.[Text © University of Cape Town Zoology Department]

 

Bacillariophyta (diatoms)

 

 

Publications

  • Adl, S.M., Simpson, A.G., Farmer, M.A., Andersen, R.A., Anderson, O.R., Barta, J.R., Bowser, S.S., Brugerolle, G., Fensome, R.A., Fredericq, S., James, T.Y., Karpov, S., Kugrens, P., Krug, J., Lane, C.E., Lewis, L.A., Lodge, J., Lynn, D.H., Mann, D.G., McCourt, R.M., Mendoza, L., Moestrup, Ø., Mozley-Standridge, S.E., Nerad, T.A., Shearer, C.A., Smirnov, A.V., Spiegel, F.W. and Taylor, M.F.J.R. 2005. The new higher level classification of eukaryotes with emphasis on the taxonomy of protists. Eukaryote Microbiology 52(5): 399-451.