Pyramimonadales are an
order
Order, ORDER or Orders may refer to:
* Categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood
* Heterarchy, a system of organization wherein the elements have the potential to be ranked a number of ...
of
green algae
The green algae (singular: green alga) are a group consisting of the Prasinodermophyta and its unnamed sister which contains the Chlorophyta and Charophyta/ Streptophyta. The land plants (Embryophytes) have emerged deep in the Charophyte alga ...
in the
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 use by a particular author. In older classification systems, it refers to a ...
. The chloroplasts of phototrophic
euglenids probably came from endosymbiosis with a member of this order.
Taxonomy
* Family
Polyblepharidaceae Dangeard 1888
** Genus ''
Amphoraemonas''
Szabados 1948
** Genus ''
Chloraster''
Ehrenberg 1848 non Haworth 1824
** Genus ''
Gyromitus''
Skuja 1939
** Genus ''
Korschikoffia''
Pascher 1927
** Genus ''
Polyblepharides''
Dangeard 1888
** Genus ''
Printziella''
Skvortzov 1958
** Genus ''
Stephanoptera''
Dangeard 1910
** Genus ''
Sycamina''
van Tieghem 1880
* Family
Pterospermataceae Lohmann 1904
** Genus ''
Polyasterias''
Meunier 1910
** Genus ''
Pterosperma''
Pouchet 1893
* Family
Pyramimonadaceae Korshikov 1938 alosphaeraceae Haeckel 1894** Genus ''
Angulomonas''
Skvortzov 1968
** Genus ''
Coccopterum''
Silva 1970
** Genus ''
Cymbomonas''
Schiller 1913
** Genus ''
Halosphaera''
Schmitz 1879
** Genus ''
Kuzminia''
Skvortzov 1958
** Genus ''
Pocillomonas''
Steinecke 1926
** Genus ''
Prasinochloris''
Belcher 1966
** Genus ''
Protoaceromonas''
Skvortzov 1968
** Genus ''
Protochroomonas''
Skvortzov 1968
** Genus ''
Pyramimonas
''Pyramimonas'' is a genus of green algae in the order Pyramimonadales.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 Institu ...
''
Schmarda 1849
** Genus ''
Tasmanites''
E.T.Newton
** Genus ''
Trichloridella''
Silva 1970
References
Chlorophyta orders
Pyramimonadophyceae
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