Pyramimonas

Pyramimonas
Pyramimonas tetrarhynchus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Chlorophyta
Class: Pyramimonadophyceae
Order: Pyramimonadales
Family: Pyramimonadaceae
Genus:
Schmarda 1849
Species
  • Pyramimonas aureus
  • Pyramimonas australis
  • Pyramimonas cirolanae
  • Pyramimonas cyclotreta
  • Pyramimonas cyrtoptera
  • Pyramimonas disomata
  • Pyramimonas grossii
  • Pyramimonas mantoniae
  • Pyramimonas mitra
  • Pyramimonas moestrupii
  • Pyramimonas octopus
  • Pyramimonas olivacea
  • Pyramimonas orientalis
  • Pyramimonas parkeae
  • Pyramimonas propulsa
  • Pyramimonas tetrarhynchus
  • Pyramimonas tychotreta

Pyramimonas is a genus of green algae in the order Pyramimonadales.[1] Phototropic euglenids inherited their plastids from a close relative of Pyramimonas which was an endosymbiont inside phagotrophic eukaryovorous euglenids.[2]

Flagellar pit of Pyramimonas sp. scale bar = 1.0 μm

References

  1. ^ "Pyramimonas". NCBI. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
  2. ^ Zakryś, B; Milanowski, R; Karnkowska, Anna (2017). "Evolutionary Origin of Euglena". Euglena: Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. Vol. 979. pp. 3–17. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-54910-1_1. ISBN 978-3-319-54908-8. PMID 28429314.
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