Register of Antarctic Species (RAS)

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WoRMS name details

Xanthophyta

AphiaID

21539 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:21539)

Classification

Status

unaccepted

Accepted name

Xanthophyceae

Rank

Phylum

Parent

Chromista

Environment

marine

Original description

Not documented

Descriptive notes

Taxonomy Xanthophytes with chrysomonads and phaeophytes (excluding haptomonads) are sometimes grouped in one phylum...

Taxonomy Xanthophytes with chrysomonads and phaeophytes (excluding haptomonads) are sometimes grouped in one phylum (Heterokontophyta) by some phycologists. [details]

Taxonomic citation

WoRMS (2025). Xanthophyta. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=21539 on 2025-07-09

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

db_admin

2010-01-27 11:09:11Z

changed

Guiry, Michael D.

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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Nomenclature

basis of record Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1998). Five Kingdoms: an illustrated guide to the Phyla of life on earth. 3rd edition. Freeman: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-7167-3027-8. xx, 520 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Other

context source (MSBIAS) MEDIN. (2011). UK checklist of marine species derived from the applications Marine Recorder and UNICORN. version 1.0. [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Unreviewed

Taxonomy Xanthophytes with chrysomonads and phaeophytes (excluding haptomonads) are sometimes grouped in one phylum (Heterokontophyta) by some phycologists. [details]

Language	Name
Ukrainian	Жовтозелені водорості	[details]

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