Translingual

Proper noun

Glaucophyta

1. A taxonomic phylum within the subkingdom Biliphyta – rare freshwater microscopic algae of special interest because they may be similar to the organisms ancestral to both plants and more common algae.

Synonyms

• (phylum): Glaucocystophyta

Hypernyms

• (phylum): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Plantae - kingdom; Biliphyta - subkingdom

Hyponyms

• (phylum): Glaucophyceae - sole class; Glaucocystales - sole order; Glaucocystaceae - sole family

See also

• Archaeplastida

References

• Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521