{{Short description|Family of algae}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Burkillia cornuta.png | image_alt = "Burkillia cornuta" | image_caption = ''Burkillia cornuta'' | taxon = Chlorochytriaceae | authority = Setchell & N.L.Gardner | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = * ''Botryokoryne'' <small>Reisigl</small> * ''Burkillia'' <small>West & G.S.West</small> * ''Chlorochytrium'' <small>Cohn</small> * ''Phyllobium'' <small>Klebs</small> * ''Rhodochytrium'' <small>Lagerheim</small> }}
'''Chlorochytriaceae''' is a family of algae within the order Chlamydomonadales.<ref>[http://www.algaebase.org/browse/taxonomy/#89775 Chlorochytriaceae] at AlgaeBase.</ref> Alternatively, it shows some morphological similarity to Characiosiphonaceae and closely related to it.<ref>{{cite journal|title= Endophytic unicellular chlorophytes: a review of ''Chlorochytrium'' and ''Scotinosphaera'' |date=2005 |volume=44 |issue=3|pages=254–260|last1=Wujek|first1=Daniel E.|last2=Thompson|first2=Rufus H.|journal=Phycologia |doi=10.2216/0031-8884(2005)44[254:EUCARO]2.0.CO;2 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2216/0031-8884%282005%2944%5B254%3AEUCARO%5D2.0.CO%3B2|url-access=subscription}}</ref> It contains a number of parasitic taxa endophytic within vascular plants, mosses, or other algae.<ref name=KomarekFott/>
The family Chlorochytriaceae consists of microscopic organisms which are unicellular or multicellular, with relatively large cells (up to 400 μm long); the cells may have an secondarily thickened cell wall or rhizoidal extensions. Chloroplasts are usually parietally located, and may be divided into complex lobes and/or contain pyrenoids. Cells contain one or more nuclei. Reproduction occurs via zoospores with two flagella; sexual reproduction via gametes may also occur.<ref name=KomarekFott>{{cite book | title= Chlorophyceae (Grünalgen), Ordnung Chlorococcales | last1=Komárek | first1=J. | last2=Fott | first2=B. | date=1983 | publisher= E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung | series=Das Phytoplankton des Süßwassers | language=German | pages=1044 }}</ref> This family appears to be an artificial assemblage of different parasitic genera.<ref name=KomarekFott/> The genus ''Scotinosphaera'' was once classified in this family, but due to molecular evidence it has been placed in its own order (Scotinosphaerales) within Ulvophyceae. <ref>{{cite journal | doi=10.1111/jpy.12021| title=Morphology and Phylogenetic Position of the Freshwater Green Microalgae ''Chlorochytrium'' (Chlorophyceae) and ''Scotinosphaera'' (Scotinosphaerales, ord. nov., Ulvophyceae)| date=2013| last1=Škaloud| first1=Pavel| last2=Kalina| first2=Tomáš| last3=Nemjová| first3=Katarína| last4=De Clerck| first4=Olivier| last5=Leliaert| first5=Frederik| journal=Journal of Phycology| volume=49| issue=1| pages=115–129| pmid=27008394| bibcode=2013JPcgy..49..115S}}</ref>
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Category:Chlamydomonadales Category:Chlorophyceae families
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