# Sphaeropleaceae

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{{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](/source/Atractomorpha_(alga))''
* ''[Characiopodium](/source/Characiopodium)''
* ''[Parallela](/source/Parallela_(alga))''
* ''[Radiofilum](/source/Radiofilum)''
* ''[Sphaeroplea](/source/Sphaeroplea)''
}}

'''Sphaeropleaceae''' is a [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) of [green algae](/source/green_algae) in the order [Sphaeropleales](/source/Sphaeropleales).<ref name="Algaebase"/>

The Sphaeropleaceae consists of solitary cells or filaments of cells. They are [coenocytic](/source/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](/source/Ulotrichales) or [Chaetophorales](/source/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](/source/sister_group) to the rest of the families in its order.<ref name=Fucikova/> It also differs from the other families in the [ultrastructure](/source/ultrastructure) of the [basal bodies](/source/basal_bodies) of their [flagella](/source/flagella).<ref name=Fucikova/>

==References==
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Category:Chlorophyceae families
Category:Sphaeropleales

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