Pyramimonas

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Pyramimonas
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Pyramimonas tetrarhynchus
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Clade: Viridiplantae
Division: Chlorophyta
Class: Pyramimonadophyceae
Order: Pyramimonadales
Family: Pyramimonadaceae
Genus: Pyramimonas
Schmarda 1849
Species

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 mm Pyramimonas sp.jpg
Flagellar pit of Pyramimonas sp. scale bar = 1.0 μm

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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.