class Xanthophyceae

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Noun1.class Xanthophyceae - yellow-green algae
Xanthophyceae
Chrysophyta, division Chrysophyta - mostly freshwater eukaryotic algae having the chlorophyll masked by brown or yellow pigment; yellow-green and golden-brown algae and diatoms: Xanthophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Bacillariophyceae; some classification systems superseded or subsumed by Heterokontophyta
class - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
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The genus Vaucheria de Candolle belongs to the class Xanthophyceae (yellow-green algae), and is one of the two benthic macroalgal genera within xanthophytes besides Tribonema (Christensen, 1987).
First findings of the benthic macroalgae Vaucheria cf. dichotoma (Xanthophyceae) and Punctaria tenuissima (Phaeophyceae) in Estonian coastal waters/Bentiliste makrovetikate Vaucheria cf. dichotoma ja Punctaria tenuissima esmaleiud Eesti rannikumeres
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