Hoek, Mann and Jahns system

Summary

The Hoek, Mann and Jahns system is a system of taxonomy of algae. It was first published in Algae: An Introduction to Phycology by Cambridge University Press in 1995.

Division Cyanophyta (= Cyanobacteria) edit

Division Prochlorophyta edit

Division Glaucophyta edit

Division Rhodophyta edit

Division Heterokontophyta edit

  • Class Parmophyceae
  • Class Sarcinochrysidophyceae
  • Order Sarcinochrysidales (e.g., Ankylochrysis, Sarcinochrysis, Nematochrysis)
  • Genus Pelagococcus (relative of the Chrysophyceae)
  • Class Xanthophyceae
  • Order Chloramoebales (e.g., Chloromeson)
  • Order Rhizochloridales (e.g., Rhizochloris, Myxochloris)
  • Order Heterogloeales (e.g., Gloeochloris)
  • Order Mischococcales (e.g., Chloridella, Botrydiopsis, Characiopsis, Ophiocytium)
  • Order Tribonematales (e.g., Tribonema, Heterococcus, Heterodendron)
  • Order Botrydiales (e.g., Botrydium)
  • Order Vaucheriales (e.g., Vaucheria)

Division Haptophyta (= Prymnesiophyta) edit

Division Cryptophyta edit

Division Dinophyta edit

Division Euglenophyta edit

  • Order Euglenales (e.g., Euglena, Astasia)
  • Order Eutreptiales
  • Order Euglenamorphales
  • Order Rhabdomonadales
  • Order Sphenomonadales
  • Order Heteronematales

Division Chlorarachniophyta edit

Division Chlorophyta edit

  • Class Cladophorophyceae
  • Class Dasycladophyceae
  • Class Trentepohliophyceae
  • Position uncertain:

Note added in proof edit

In a note added in proof, an alternative classification is presented for the class Chlorophyceae:

  • Class Chlamydophyceae
  • Class Oedogoniophyceae

Many examples of genus given in the book could not be assigned to one of these classes, because the ultrastructural characteristics needed for their classification have not yet been studied.

References edit

External links edit

  • van den Hoek, C.; Mann, D. G.; Jahns, Hans Martin (1995). Algae: An Introduction to Phycology. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521304191.