''Chroomonas baltica'' is a species of cryptophyte first described by J. Büttner in 1910, as ''Cyanomonas baltica''. It would be reclassified to its current genus by N. Carter in 1937. Büttner observed ''C. baltica'' off the coast of

Strande Strande is a municipality in the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany at the Kiel Fjord Kiel () is the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 246, ...

in 1910, naming it ''Cyanomonas baltica'', from the blue color of the

chromatophore Chromatophores are cells that produce color, of which many types are Biological pigment, pigment-containing cells, or groups of cells, found in a wide range of animals including amphibians, fish, reptiles, crustaceans and cephalopods. Mammals and ...

and the sea it was discovered.

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