| Pyrenomonas | |
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| Pyrenomonas ovalis. Cell anatomy representation, showing ventral view, palmelloid colony, external appearance (periplast) and transversal section. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Pancryptista |
| Phylum: | Cryptista |
| Superclass: | Cryptomonada |
| Class: | Cryptophyceae |
| Order: | Pyrenomonadales |
| Family: | Pyrenomonadaceae |
| Genus: | Pyrenomonas Santore, 1984 |
| Type species | |
| Pyrenomonas salina (Wislouch, 1924) Santore, 1984 | |
| Species [1] | |
Pyrenomonas is a genus of cryptomonad. [4] It is a red alga with a bilobed chloroplast and a central pyrenoid, which has an invagination that houses a nucleomorph [5] .
Pyrenomonas salina, the type species, was characterized in 1984 [6] but has since been renamed to Rhodomonas salina . [7] According to AlgaeBase, Pyrenomonas would only encompass two recognized species: Pyrenomonas helgolandii U.Santore and Pyrenomonas ovalis P.Kugrens, B.L.Clay & R.E.Lee, 1999 [8] . The following species are considered synonyms of the accepted names: