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]
Pyramimonas | |
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Pyramimonas tetrarhynchus | |
Scientific classification | |
(unranked): | Viridiplantae |
Division: | Chlorophyta |
Class: | Pyramimonadophyceae |
Order: | Pyramimonadales |
Family: | Pyramimonadaceae |
Genus: | PyramimonasSchmarda 1849
Species
Pyramimonas aureus
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