{{Short description|Family of algae}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = British fresh-water algae, exclusive of Desmidieae and Diatomaceae (1882-1884) (20424304451).jpg | image_caption = British fresh-water algae, exclusive of Desmidieae and Diatomaceae (1882-1884) | taxon = Sphaeropleaceae | authority = Kützing, 1849 | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision_ref = <ref name="Algaebase">{{cite web | url = http://www.algaebase.org/browse/taxonomy/?id=4951 | publisher = AlgaeBase version 4.2 World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway | access-date = 2007-09-25 | title = Family: Sphaeropleaceae taxonomy browser |author1=Guiry, M.D. |author2=Guiry, G.M. |name-list-style=amp | year = 2007 }}</ref> | subdivision = * ''Atractomorpha'' * ''Characiopodium'' * ''Parallela'' * ''Radiofilum'' * ''Sphaeroplea'' }}
'''Sphaeropleaceae''' is a family of green algae in the order Sphaeropleales.<ref name="Algaebase"/>
The Sphaeropleaceae consists of solitary cells or filaments of cells. They are coenocytic, and reproduce asexually via zoospores or sexually via anisogamy or oogamy.<ref name=Fucikova>{{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 | bibcode=2014JPcgy..50...14F | s2cid=24770288 }}</ref>
The family has had a convoluted taxonomic history. Depending on the author, it has been placed in one of many orders including Ulotrichales or Chaetophorales.<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1007/s006060200002 |title=Phylogenetic position of the Sphaeropleaceae (Chlorophyta) |date=2002 |last1=Wolf |first1=M. |last2=Buchheim |first2=M. |last3=Hegewald |first3=E. |last4=Krienitz |first4=L. |last5=Hepperle |first5=D. |journal=Plant Systematics and Evolution |volume=230 |issue=3–4 |pages=161–171 |s2cid=37285971 }}</ref> Currently, it is placed in its own order, the Sphaeropleales. It appears to be the sister group to the rest of the families in its order.<ref name=Fucikova/> It also differs from the other families in the ultrastructure of the basal bodies of their flagella.<ref name=Fucikova/>
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