Mamiellales are an
order of
green algae in the class
Mamiellophyceae
Mamiellophyceae is a class of green algae in the division Chlorophyta
Chlorophyta or Prasinophyta is a taxon of green algae informally called chlorophytes. The name is used in two very different senses, so care is needed to determine the u ...
. Their cells and flagella are covered with spiderweb-like scales of several types. Some species lack scales but possess pigments similar to those of the scale-bearing species.
Taxonomy
Order Mamiellales
Moestrup 1984 icromonadalesref name="Algaebase">
* Family
Bathycoccaceae Marin & Melkonian 2010
** Genus ''
Bathycoccus
''Bathycoccus'' is a genus of green algae in the order Mamiellales
Mamiellales are an order of green algae in the class Mamiellophyceae. Their cells and flagella are covered with spiderweb-like scales of several types. Some species lack scal ...
''
Eikrem & Throndsen 1990
** Genus ''
Ostreococcus
''Ostreococcus'' is a genus of unicellular coccoid or spherically shaped green algae belonging to the class Mamiellophyceae. It includes prominent members of the global picoplankton community, which plays a central role in the oceanic carbon c ...
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Courties & Chrétiennot-Dinet 1995
* Family
Mamiellaceae
IMamiellaceae is a family of green algae in the order Mamiellales.See the NCBI
The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is part of the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), a branch of the National Institutes of ...
Moestrup 1984
** Genus ''
Mamiella''
Moestrup 1984
** Genus ''
Mantoniella''
Desikachary 1972
** Genus ''
Micromonas
''Micromonas'' is a genus of green algae in the family '' Mamiellaceae''.
Before the characterization in 2016 of a second species, ''Micromonas commoda'', ''Micromonas pusilla'' was considered to be the only species in the genus, which led to a ...
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Manton & Parke 1960 non Borrel 1902
References
Chlorophyta orders
Mamiellophyceae
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