Actinastrum

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Actinastrum
Actinastrum hantzschii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
(unranked): Viridiplantae
Division: Chlorophyta
Class: Trebouxiophyceae
Order: Chlorellales
Family: Chlorellaceae
Genus: Actinastrum
Lagerheim, 1882
Type species
Actinastrum hantzschii
Lagerheim
Species

Actinastrum is a genus of mostly freshwater single-celled Eukaryotes, first described by Gustaf Lagerheim in 1882.[1]

Studies since 2002 have placed Actinastrum as either sister to or a subgrouping within

Charophyte green alga genus in the family Chlorellaceae.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ Gustaf Lagerheim (February 1882). "Bidrag till kännedomen om Stockholmstraktens Pediastréer, Protococcacéer och Palmellacéer". Öfversigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. 39 (2): 47–81.
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