Chlorophyceae
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The Chlorophyceae are one of the classes of green algae, distinguished mainly on the basis of ultrastructural morphology. The following orders are typically recognised:

• Dunaliellales
• Chlamydomonadales (e.g. Chlamydomonas)
• Volvocales (e.g. Volvox)
• Chlorococcales (e.g. Chlorella)
• Oedogoniales (e.g. Oedogonium)
• Sphaeropleales
• Chaetophorales
• Microsporales
• Tetrasporales (e.g. Tetraspora)

In older classifications, the term Chlorophyceae is sometimes used to apply to all the green algae except the Charales, and the internal division is considerably different.

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