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Scientific classification 
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| Clade: | Viridiplantae |
| Division: | Chlorophyta |
| Class: | Chlorophyceae |
| Order: | Sphaeropleales |
| Family: | Scenedesmaceae Oltmanns, 1904 |
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Scenedesmaceae is a family of green algae in the order Sphaeropleales. Scenedesmus algae are commonly found in freshwater plankton. The former family Coelastraceae is considered a synonym of Scenedesmaceae.
The family has existed since at least the Cretaceous period, as evidenced by amber deposits from France containing the genus Enallax.
Description
Algae in the family Scenedesmaceae consist of coenobia with flat or curved shapes, or sometimes three-dimensional clusters.
Genera
Genera in this family include:
- Acutodesmus
- Asterarcys
- Astrocladium
- Chodatodesmus
- Closteriococcus
- Coelastrella
- Coelastropsis
- Coelastrum
- Comasiella
- Crucigeniopsis
- Danubia
- Desmodesmus
- Dimorphococcus
- Enallax
- Flechtneria
- Gilbertsmithia
- Hariotina
- Hofmania
- Hylodesmus
- Komarekia
- Lauterborniella
- Neodesmus
- Pectinodesmus
- Pseudodidymocystis
- Pseudotetrastrum
- Scenedesmus
- Schistochilium
- Schmidledesmus
- Schroederiella
- Scotiellopsis
- Soropediastrum
- Staurogenia
- Steinedesmus
- Tetradesmus
- Tetrallantos
- Tetranephris
- Tetrastrum
- Truncatulus
- Verrucodesmus
- Westella
- Westellopsis
- Willea
- Yadavaea
References
- "Coelastraceae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Girard, Vincent (2009). "Evidence of Scenedesmaceae (Chlorophyta) from 100 million-year-old amber". Geodiversitas. 31 (1): 145–151. doi:10.5252/g2009n1a13. S2CID 129466659. Archived from the original on 11 May 2021. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
- Hegewald, Eberhard; Wolf, Matthias; Keller, Alexander; Friedl, Thomas; Krienitz, Lothar (2010). "ITS2 sequence-structure phylogeny in the Scenedesmaceae with special reference to Coelastrum (Chlorophyta, Chlorophyceae), including the new genera Comasiella and Pectinodesmus". Phycologia. 49 (4): 325–335. doi:10.2216/09-61.1. S2CID 85145401.
- "Protist Images: Chlorophyta". Protist Information Server. Retrieved 2007-09-19.
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