| Chlorophyta Temporal range:
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| "Siphoneae" from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur, 1904 | |
Scientific classification 
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| Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
| Clade: | CAM |
| Clade: | Archaeplastida |
| Clade: | Viridiplantae |
| Division: | Chlorophyta Reichenbach, 1828, emend. Pascher, 1914, emend. Lewis & McCourt, 2004[2][3][4] |
| Classes[5] | |
| Diversity | |
| 7,934 species (6,851 living, 1,083 fossil)[6] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Chlorophyta (from Greek chloros 'yellow green' and phyton 'plant')[8] is a division of green algae informally called chlorophytes.[9]
- ^ Tang et al. 2020.
- ^ Reichenbach 1828, p. 23.
- ^ Pascher 1914.
- ^ Adl et al. 2019, p. 36.
- ^ Guiry 2024.
- ^ Guiry 2024, p. 5.
- ^ Papenfuss 1955.
- ^ Margulis & Chapman 2009, p. 200.
- ^ Rockwell et al. 2017.