7
General Overview
TABLE 1.3
Thallus Morphology in the Different Algal Divisions
Phylum
Unicellular and
Nonmotile
Unicellular and
Motile
Colonial
and Nonmotile
Colonial and
Motile
Filamentous
Siphonous
Parenchimatous
Cyanobacteria
Synechococcus
n.d.
Anacystis
n.d.
Calothrix
n.d.
Pleurocapsa
Prochloron
Prochlorothrix
Glaucophyta
Glaucocystis
Cyanophora
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
Rhodophyta
Phorphyridium
n.d.
Cyanoderma
n.d.
Goniotricum
n.d.
Palmaria
Chlorophyta
Chlorella
Dunaliella
Pseudo-sphaerocystis
Volvox
Ulothrix
Bryopsis
Ulva
Charophyta
Haptophyta
n.d.
Chrysochromulina
n.d.
Corymbellus
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
Cryptophyta
n.d.
Cryptomonas
n.d.
n.d.
Bjornbergiella
n.d.
n.d.
Ochrophyta
Triceratium
Ochromonas
Chlorobotrys
Synura
Ectocarpus
Vaucheria
Fucus
Cercozoa (Chlorarachniophyceae) n.d.
Chlorarachnion
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
Myzozoa (Dynophyceae)
Dinococcus
Gonyaulax
Gloeodinium
n.d.
Dinoclonium
n.d.
n.d.
Euglenozoa (Euglenophyceae)
Ascoglena
Phacus
Colacium
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
Note:
n.d., not detected.