Pyramimonas

Pyramimonas
Pyramimonas tetrarhynchus
Scientific classification
Clade:	Viridiplantae
Division:	Chlorophyta
Class:	Pyramimonadophyceae
Order:	Pyramimonadales
Family:	Pyramimonadaceae
Genus:	Pyramimonas 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". Adv Exp Med Biol. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. 979: 3–17. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-54910-1_1. ISBN 978-3-319-54908-8. PMID 28429314.