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. Phototropic euglenids inherited their plastids from a close relative of Pyramimonas which was an endosymbiont inside phagotrophic eukaryovorous euglenids.

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