Ochrophytes, also known as heterokontophytes or stramenochromes, are a group of algae. They are the photosynthetic stramenopiles, a group of eukaryotes...

Heterokontophyta Ochre plants, heterokont plants Heterokont algae, stramenochromes, ochrophytes, heterokontophytes Biflagellates with tripartite mastigonemes, chloroplasts...

al. 2016, emend. Cavalier-Smith 2017 (diatoms plus a subset of other ochrophyte groups) Phylum Diatomeae Dumortier 1821 [= Bacillariophyta Haeckel 1878]...

Pseudoblepharisma in the phylum Ciliophora—clade Alveolata (unicellular) The ochrophytes—clade Stramenopila (uni- and multicellular) The chlorarachniophytes and...

undergoes meiosis to produce haploid spores (gametes), similarly to ochrophytes and animals. Some exceptions display a haplodiplontic life cycle, where...

This paleobotany list records new fossil plant taxa that were to be described during the year 2024, as well as notes other significant paleobotany discoveries...

cryptophytes, haptophytes, dinoflagellates, chromerids, many green algae, ochrophytes, euglenophytes) to amoeboid cells (chlorarachniophytes) to colonial and...

was recognized as a phylogenetically distinct lineage from the rest of ochrophyte classes. Olisthodiscus is a unicellular organism. Cells are rounded or...

"Heterokont Predator Develorapax marinus gen. et sp. nov.- A Model of the Ochrophyte Ancestor", Front Microbiol, 7 (1194): 1194, doi:10.3389/fmicb.2016.01194...

Pedinellales (ICN) or Pedinellida (ICZN) is a group of single-celled algae found in both marine environments and freshwater. These are found in both freshwater...

root) is an organelle present in a variety of flagellates, including ochrophyte and chlorophyte algae and some fungi. This term is used for a variety...

Nannochloropsis is a genus of algae comprising six known species. The genus in the current taxonomic classification was first termed by Hibberd (1981)...

Subclass of ochrophytes...

revised taxonomy of Gyrista is the following, with the inclusion of new ochrophyte classes described in 2020 and 2021: Subphylum Bigyromonada Cavalier-Smith...

Rhizochromulina is an unusual genus of marine heterokont algae, with one species, Rhizocromulina marina. They are colored amoeboids with a single flagellum...

Tribonema is a genus of filamentous, freshwater yellow-green algae. The holotype for the genus is the species Tribonema bombycina (C.Agardh) Derbès & Solier...

Dictyochophyceae sensu lato is a photosynthetic lineage of heterokont algae. Class Dictyochophyceae Silva 1980 s.l. Subclass Sulcophycidae Cavalier-Smith...

Heterosigma akashiwo is a species of microscopic algae of the class Raphidophyceae. It is a swimming marine alga that episodically forms toxic surface...

The silicoflagellates (order Dictyochales) are a small group of unicellular photosynthetic protists, or algae, belonging to the supergroup of eukaryotes...

Actinophrys is a genus of heliozoa, amoeboid unicellular organisms with many axopodial filaments that radiate out of their cell. It contains one of the...

al. 2016, emend. Cavalier-Smith 2017 (diatoms plus a subset of other ochrophyte groups) Phylum Diatomeae Dumortier 1821 [= Bacillariophyta Haeckel 1878]...

The Parmales are an order of marine microalgae within the Bolidophyceae class. They are found worldwide and characterized by a cell wall composed of 5-8...

Vaucheria is a genus of Xanthophyceae or yellow-green algae known as water felt. It is one of only two genera in the family Vaucheriaceae. The type species...

Pedinellales, a heliozoan order assigned to Dictyochophyceae, a class of ochrophytes. It was created in 2001 by biologist David J. Patterson to describe cells...

Octactis is a genus of silicoflagellates, marine photosynthetic unicellular protists that take the form of either flagellates or axopodial amoebae. Described...

Pedinella is a genus of small, unicellular planktonic or attached, flagellated heterokonts first described in 1888 by A. V. Vysotskij. The genus is monospecific...

Aureoumbra lagunensis is a unicellular planktonic marine microalga that belongs in the genus Aureoumbra under the class Pelagophyceae. It is similar in...

Commation is a genus of marine heterotrophic protists closely related to the actinophryids. It contains two species, Commation cryoporinum and Commation...

Dictyocha is a genus of silicoflagellates, marine photosynthetic unicellular protists that take the form of either flagellates or axopodial amoebae. Described...

Synchromaceae and order Synchromales as part of an independent clade of ochrophytes known as Picophagea or Synchromophyceae. They are distinguished by their...