{{Short description|Family of algae}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Neochloris_aquatica_1f.png | image_caption = ''Neochloris aquatica'' | taxon = Neochloridaceae | authority = Ettl & Komárek | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = * ''Botryosphaerella'' * ''Chlorotetraedron'' * ''Echinosphaeridium'' * ''Neochloris'' * ''Poloidion'' }}
'''Neochloridaceae''' is a family of green algae in the order Sphaeropleales.<ref>See the NCBI [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Info&id=132191 webpage on Neochloridaceae]. Data extracted from the {{cite web | url=https://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/taxonomy/ | title=NCBI taxonomy resources | publisher=National Center for Biotechnology Information | access-date=2007-03-19}}</ref>
Neochloridaceae consists of aquatic, coccoid algae. The cells are spherical or with complex polyhedral shapes. Chloroplasts have pyrenoids that are surrounded by continuous starch sheaths. They reproduce via asexual reproduction, where the cell forms aplanospores or zoospores; the zoospores bear two flagella.<ref name=Fucikova2014>{{cite journal | doi=10.1111/jpy.12118 | title=Putting incertae sedis taxa in their place: A proposal for ten new families and three new genera in Sphaeropleales (Chlorophyceae, Chlorophyta) | year=2014 | last1=Fučíková | first1=Karolina | last2=Lewis | first2=Paul O. | last3=Lewis | first3=Louise A. | journal=Journal of Phycology | volume=50 | issue=1 | pages=14–25 | pmid=26988005 | s2cid=24770288 }}</ref>
Phylogenetically, Neochloridaceae is sister to the family Hydrodictyaceae, a family which contains common and well-known algae such as ''Pediastrum''.<ref>{{cite journal | doi=10.1111/j.1529-8817.2005.00129.x | title=Phylogeny of the Hydrodictyaceae (Chlorophyceae): inferences from rDNA data | date=2005 | last1=Buchheim | first1=Mark | last2=Buchheim | first2=Julie | last3=Carlson | first3=Tracy | last4=Braband | first4=Anke | last5=Hepperle | first5=Dominik | last6=Krienitz | first6=Lothar | last7=Wolf | first7=Matthias | last8=Hegewald | first8=Eberhard | journal=Journal of Phycology | volume=41 | issue=5 | pages=1039–1054 | s2cid=83698514 }}</ref>
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Category:Chlorophyceae families Category:Sphaeropleales
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