Pyrenomonas

Pyrenomonas
Scientific classification
Clade: Pancryptista
Phylum: Cryptista
Class: Cryptophyceae
Order: Pyrenomonadales
Family: Pyrenomonadaceae
Genus: Pyrenomonas
Santore 1984
Type species
Pyrenomonas salina
(Wislouch 1924) Santore 1984
Species
  • P. helgolandii U.Santore
  • P. ovalis P.Kugrens, B.L.Clay & R.E.Lee
  • P. salina (Wislouch 1924) Santore 1984

Pyrenomonas is a genus of cryptomonad.

Pyrenomonas salina, the type species, was characterized in 1984 but has since been renamed to Rhodomonas salina. Therefore, making the genus Pyrenomonas a synonym of Rhodomonas.

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