Alga roja..Red Algae en Playa Las Machas, Caldera, Chile

Alga roja..Red Algae at Playa Las Machas, Caldera, Chile

Red or rhophytic algae are an important group of algae that comprise about 7,000 species of a great diversity of shapes and sizes.They are part of the Archaeplastida clade next to Glaucophyta and Viridiplantae, depending on the criteria taken, they are included among the plants or between protists.