PHYTOPLANKTON DIVERSITY LINKS for Biology 306, Illinois Wesleyan University:

DOMAIN EUKARYA

Phytoplankton in the Skagerrak-Kattegat, North Atlantic Ocean, Goteborg University

KINGDOM PLANTAE

Phylum/Division Chlorophyta (desmids)

Planktonic Chlorophytes, two pages of images from University of Tsukuba, Japan
Desmids, images from University of Tsukuba, Japan

KINGDOM PROTOCTISTA

<>Phylum/Division Euglenophyta (euglenoids)


<>*Introduction to Euglenoids, Rutgers University  (read all sections)
<> The Eugenoid Project, Rutgers University

Phylum/Division Glaucophyta (glaucophytes)

Glaucophytes, images from University of Tsukuba, Japan

Phylum/Division Haptophyta (Prymnesiophyta)

Introduction to the Prymnesiophyta (Haptophyta), U. of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley
*Emiliania huxleyi (Coccolithophorid) Home Page, Toby Tyrrell  (read introduction and interest sections and view bloom pictures)
Coccolithophorids, images from University of Tsukuba, Japan
Holococcolithophorids, images from University of Tsukuba, Japan
Haptophyceae, images from University of Tsukuba, Japan

"Alveolata" Clade

Phylum/Division Pyrrhophyta (Dinophyta, the dinoflagellates)

*Harmful Algae Page, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution  (gateway to lots of information--just browse)
Dinoflagellates, University of Calgary
Dinoflagellates, two pages of images from University of Tsukuba, Japan


KINGDOM STRAMENOPILA (Chromista)

Introduction to the Chromista, U. California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley
World of Algae, University of Western Cape, S. Africa

Phylum/Division Chrysophyta (yellow-green algae=Xanthophyceae, golden brown algae=Chrysophyceae)

Class Xanthophyceae

Xanthophyceae, images from the University of Tsukuba, Japan

Class Chrysophyceae

Chrysophyceae, images from University of Tsukuba, Japan

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