Yellow-green and golden-brown algae and diatoms Xanthophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Bacillariophyceae

• Mostly freshwater eukaryotic algae having the chlorophyll masked by brown or yellow pigment
• Some some classification systems superseded or subsumed by Heterokontophyta

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Chrysophyta is a term used to refer to certain heterokonts . It can be used to refer to: Chrysophyceae ( golden algae ), Bacillariophyceae (diatoms), and Xanthophyceae (yellow-green algae) together. E.g., Pascher (1914). Chrysophyceae ( golden algae ) E.g., ...

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Chrysophyta \Chrysophyta\ n. a division of mostly freshwater eukaryotic algae having the chlorophyll masked by brown or yellow pigment; yellow-green and golden-brown algae and diatoms, including the Xanthophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Bacillariophyceae; some ...