• Plants Kingdom (Plantae)

• Green Algae (Phylum Chlorophyta)

• Ulvophycean Green Algae (Class Ulvophyceae)

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Class Ulvophyceae is a major class of green algae within the phylum Chlorophyta, consisting predominantly of marine species that inhabit coastal and shallow-water environments around the world. Members of this class display remarkable diversity in form, ranging from microscopic unicellular species to large multicellular seaweeds with sheet-like, tubular, filamentous, or siphonous thalli.