Biliphyta

Biliphyta
Close-up of a red alga ( Laurencia sp.), a marine seaweed from Hawaii.
Scientific classification (obsolete as polyphyletic)
Kingdom:	Plantae
Subkingdom:	Biliphyta Cavalier-Smith, 1981
Phyla [1]
Glaucophyta Skuja, 1948 Rhodophyta Wettstein, 1901

Biliphyta is an obsolete polyphyletic subkingdom of algae.

It includes Glaucophyta and Rhodophyta. ^{[2] [3]}

Members of this group should not be confused with Picozoa, which is also called Picobiliphytes, which are also known as "biliphytes". ^[4]

References

1. "Taxonomy Browser :: Algaebase".
2. Deschamps, P.; Moreira, D. (2009). "Signal conflicts in the phylogeny of the primary photosynthetic eukaryotes". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 26 (12): 2745–2753. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msp189 . PMID   19706725.
3. Cavalier-Smith, T. (1981). "Eukaryote kingdoms: seven or nine?". Bio Systems. 14 (3–4): 461–481. doi:10.1016/0303-2647(81)90050-2. PMID   7337818.
4. Cuvelier, M.; Ortiz, A.; Kim, E.; Moehlig, H.; Richardson, D.; Heidelberg, J.; Archibald, J.; Worden, A. (2008). "Widespread distribution of a unique marine protistan lineage". Environmental Microbiology. 10 (6): 1621–1634. doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01580.x. PMC   2408648 . PMID   18341584.

Further reading

• Ruggiero, Michael A.; Gordon, Dennis P.; Orrell, Thomas M.; Bailly, Nicolas; Bourgoin, Thierry; Brusca, Richard C.; Cavalier-Smith, Thomas; Guiry, Michael D.; Kirk, Paul M. (2015). "A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms". PLOS ONE. 10 (4): e0119248. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1019248R. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248 . PMC   4418965 . PMID   25923521.