Zoochlorella | |
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Scientific classification ![]() (obsolete) | |
Clade: | Viridiplantae |
Division: | Chlorophyta |
Class: | Trebouxiophyceae |
Order: | Chlorellales |
Family: | Chlorellaceae |
Genus: | Zoochlorella K.Brandt, 1881, nom. rejic. |
Zoochlorella (pl.: zoochlorellae) is a colloquial term for any green algae that lives symbiotically within the body of an aquatic invertebrate animal or a protozoan.[1]