What is "chrysophyta"

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algae and diatoms, including the Xanthophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Bacillariophyceae; some some classification systems superseded or subsumed by Heterokontophyta.

Syn: division Chrysophyta.

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., Margulis et al. (1990).