Pyrenomonadaceae

Pyrenomonadaceae
Rhodomonas salina
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Pancryptista
Phylum: Cryptista
Subphylum: Rollomonadia
Superclass: Cryptomonada
Class: Cryptophyceae
Order: Pyrenomonadales
Family:
Novarino & Lucas 1993
Genera
  • Proteomonas
  • Pyrenomonas
  • Rhinomonas
  • Rhodomonas
  • Storeatula

Pyrenomonadaceae is a family of cryptomonads which includes three or four known genera. They are distinguished from other cryptomonads by their nucleomorphs being imbedded into the pyrenoid, and the presence of distinctive pigment phycoerythrin 545.[1]

  1. ^ Novarino and Lucas (1993), "Some proposals for a new classification system of the Cryptophyceae", Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 111 (1): 3–21, doi:10.1006/bojl.1993.1002
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