protoctist family
Noun
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Any of the families of Protoctista (synset 101390258)
is a type of: family - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more generasubtypes:
- family globigerinidae, globigerinidae - a family of protoctists
- family nummulitidae, nummulitidae - a family of fossil protoctists
- arcellidae, family arcellidae - soil and freshwater protozoa; cosmopolitan in distribution
- family tribonemaceae, tribonemaceae - simple filamentous freshwater yellow-green algae
- family laminariaceae, laminariaceae - large family of marine brown algae including many economically important large kelps chiefly of northern waters
- family fucaceae, fucaceae - small family of brown algae: gulfweeds; rockweeds
- euglenaceae, family euglenaceae - considered green algae
- family ulvaceae, sea-lettuce family, ulvaceae - thin flat or tubular green algae
- family volvocaceae, volvocaceae - unicellular or colonial biflagellate free-swimming flagellates
- chlamydomonadaceae, family chlamydomonadaceae - green algae some of which are colored red by hematochrome
- family zygnemataceae, zygnemataceae - pond scums: common freshwater algae forming green slimy masses
- family oedogoniaceae, oedogoniaceae - filamentous green algae
- characeae, family characeae - green algae superficially resembling horsetail ferns: stoneworts
- desmidiaceae, family desmidiaceae - unicellular algae
- family gigartinaceae, gigartinaceae - a family of protoctist
- family rhodymeniaceae, rhodymeniaceae - a family of protoctist
- bangiaceae, family bangiaceae - a family of protoctist
- family peridiniidae, peridiniidae - marine and freshwater dinoflagellates
- eimeriidae, family eimeriidae - a family of protoctist in the order Coccidia
- family plasmodiidae, plasmodiidae - malaria parasites
- family haemoproteidae, haemoproteidae - bird parasites
- babesiidae, family babesiidae - piroplasms and cattle pathogens
belongs to: kingdom protoctista, protoctista - in most modern classifications, replacement for the Protista; includes: Protozoa; Euglenophyta; Chlorophyta; Cryptophyta; Heterokontophyta; Rhodophyta; unicellular protists and their descendant multicellular organisms: regarded as distinct from plants and animals
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