The Tetraphytina (Cavalier-Smith 2008) or 'core Chlorophyta' are a proposed derived Chlorophyta clade.[1][2] The basal Tetraphytina clades are the Pedinophyceae and the Chlorophytina.

Below is a cladogram based on Leliaert et al.[3]

Viridiplantae = green algae (incl. Embryophyta)
Chlorophyta
Tetraphytina
Chlorophytina

Ulvophyceae Mattox & Stewart 1984

Chlorophyceae Christensen 1994

Trebouxiophyceae Friedl 1995

Chlorodendrophyceae Massjuk 2006

Pedinophyceae Moestrup 1991

Prasinophytes Clade VIIA

Prasinophytes Clade VIIC

Pycnococcaceae

Nephroselmidophyceae

Mamiellophyceae Marin & Melkonian 2010

Pyramimonadales

Palmophyllophyceae

Palmophyllales Zechman et al. 2010

Prasinococcales

Streptophyta = Charophyta (incl. Embryophyta)

References

  1. ^ Cavalier-Smith, T. (1998-08-01). "A revised six-kingdom system of life". Biological Reviews. 73 (3): 203–266. doi:10.1111/j.1469-185x.1998.tb00030.x. ISSN 1469-185X. PMID 9809012. S2CID 6557779.
  2. ^ Brodie, Juliet; Lewis, Jane (2007-11-26). Unravelling the algae: the past, present, and future of algal systematics. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-7990-1.
  3. ^ Leliaert, Frederik; Tronholm, Ana; Lemieux, Claude; Turmel, Monique; DePriest, Michael S.; Bhattacharya, Debashish; Karol, Kenneth G.; Fredericq, Suzanne; Zechman, Frederick W. (2016-05-09). "Chloroplast phylogenomic analyses reveal the deepest-branching lineage of the Chlorophyta, Palmophyllophyceae class. nov". Scientific Reports. 6: 25367. doi:10.1038/srep25367. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 4860620. PMID 27157793.
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