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Taxon: Class Rhodellophyceae Caval.-Sm. (1998) (alga)
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Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Plantae - (Phylum) Rhodophyta

Phylogeny

Probably Paraphyletic/Ancestral (para) Ref: G.W. Saunders & M.H. Hommersand, 2004: 1503 ("likely paraphyletic").

Original position

Rhodellophytina (Subphylum) Caval.-Sm. (1998)

Subsequent entries

Compsopogonales (Order) Skuja (1939) Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998: 249. [assumed]
Cyanidiales (Order) T.A.Chr. (1962), nom. inval. Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998: 249. [assumed]
Porphyridiales (Order) Kylin ex Skuja (1939) Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998: 249. [assumed]

Current position

Rhodellophytina (Subphylum) Caval.-Sm. (1998) Ref: M.A. Ruggiero et al., 2015b: table 2 (p. 28); Saunders & Hommersand, 2004: fig. 2.

Historical positions

Rhodellophytina (Subphylum) Caval.-Sm. (1998) Ref: M.A. Ruggiero et al., 2015b: table 2 (p. 28).
Rhodellophytina (Subphylum) Caval.-Sm. (1998) Ref: G.W. Saunders & M.H. Hommersand, 2004: 1503.
Rhodellophytina (Subphylum) Caval.-Sm. (1998) Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998: table 6 (p. 250). [new taxon]

Number of Subtaxa

2025 Available in Systema Naturae 2000 3o
1989-present Systema Naturae 2000: 22 May 2023 [3o]
2015b M.A. Ruggiero et al.: table 2 (p. 28) [3o]
2004 G.W. Saunders & M.H. Hommersand: 1503 [3o]
1998 T. Cavalier-Smith: 249 [3o]
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