| Bolidophyceae | |
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| Tetraparma pelagica | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Sar |
| Clade: | Stramenopiles |
| Phylum: | Ochrophyta |
| Clade: | Diatomista |
| Clade: | Khakista |
| Class: | Bolidophyceae L.Guillou & M.-J.Chrétiennot-Dinet 1999 |
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Bolidophyceae is a class of photosynthetic heterokont picophytoplankton, and consist of less than 20 known species. [1] [2] [3] They are distinguished by the angle of flagellar insertion and swimming patterns as well as recent molecular analyses. [4] Bolidophyceae is the sister taxon to the diatoms (Bacillariophyceae). They lack the characteristic theca of the diatoms, [5] and have been proposed as an intermediate group between the diatoms and all other heterokonts. [4] [6]
In the gallery, all scale bar represent 1 μm.