Generalities
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Table 1: Classification of some microalgae species (Wahbi, 2017).
Habitat
Reserves
Pigments
Representatives
Number
of
Species
Common name
Type
of
microalgae
Phylum
Fresh, brackish
and salt water
Carbohydrates,
lipids
and
Proteins
Chlorophyll a and b.
xantophyll and carotenes.
Chlorella,sp
Scenedesmus sp
7500
Green algae
Eukaryote
Chlorophyte
Fresh, brackish
and salt water
Lipids and silica
Chlorophyll a, C1 and
C2.
Xantophylls.
Carotenes Fucoxanthin
Dinobryon sp
Surirella arctica
6000
Brown-yellow, greenyellow algae
and
diatoms
Eukaryote
Chrysophyte
Fresh, brackish
and salt water
Starch, lipids and
proteins
Chlorophylls a, C1, C2,
carotenes, Fucoxanthin
Gymnodinium
litoralis
Ceratium fusus
Alexandrium minitum
1100
Dinoflagellates,
dinophytes
Eukaryote
Pyrrhophyte
Brackish and
salt water
Complex
and
sulfated
polysaccharides
Chlorophyll
a
Phycoerythrin
Phycocyanin,
Rhodosorus marinus
7000
Red algae
Eukaryote
Rhodophyte
Fresh and salt
water
Polysaccharides,
lipids and iron
Chlorophyll
a
and b
allophycocyanin,
phycoerythrocyanine
Anabaena azollae
Spirulina
platensis
Microcystis aeruginosa
2000
Cyanobacteria, bluegreen algae
Prokaryote
Cyanophyte