Zoochlorella

Zoochlorella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
(obsolete)
Clade: Viridiplantae
Division: Chlorophyta
Class: Trebouxiophyceae
Order: Chlorellales
Family: Chlorellaceae
Genus: Zoochlorella
K.Brandt, 1881, nom. rejic.

Zoochlorella (pl.: zoochlorellae) is a coloquial term for any green algae that lives symbiotically within the body of an aquatic invertebrate animal or a protozoan.[1]

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