Heterokont facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Heterokonts
Pacific rockweed, Fucus distichus, in Olympic National Park
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukarya
Kingdom:	Chromalveolata
Phylum:	Heterokontophyta
Typical classes
Colored groups (alga-like) Actihrysophyceae (axodines) Bacillariophyceae (diatoms) Bolidophyceae Chrysophyceae (golden algae) Eustigmatophyceae Pelagophyceae Phaeophyceae (brown algae) Phaeothamniophyceae Raphidophyceae Synurophyceae Xanthophyceae (yellow-green algae) Colorless groups (fungus-like) Bicosoecea Hyphochytridiomycetes Labyrinthulomycetes (slime nets) Oomycetes (water moulds) Opalinea Proteromonadea Blastocystis

The heterokonts or stramenopiles are a major line of eukaryotes with more than 100,000 known species, most of them diatoms.

Heterokonts are mostly algae. In one stage of their life cycle they have two unequal flagella. They include both single-celled types and brown algae (seaweeds such as kelp and Sargassum). They are members of the Kingdom Chromalveolata.

Images for kids

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  Aplanochytrium (Labyrinthulea)

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  Blastocystis hominis (Blastocystea)

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  Peronospora sparsa (Oomycetes)

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  Potatoes with Phytophthora (Oomycetes)

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  Diatoms (Bacillariophyceae)

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  Silicoflagellate (Dictyochophyceae)

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  Actinophrys sol (Actinophryida)

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  Nannochloropsis sp. (Eustigmatophyceae)

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  Dinobryon sp. (Chrysophyceae)

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  Synura sp. (Synurophyceae)

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  Vaucheria (Xanthophyta)

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  Fucus distichus (Phaeophyceae)

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  Pelagophycus porra (Phaeophyceae)

See also

In Spanish: Heterokonta para niños