Pyrenomonas | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Chromista |
Phylum: | Cryptophyta |
Class: | Cryptophyceae |
Order: | Pyrenomonadales |
Family: | Pyrenomonadaceae |
Genus: | Pyrenomonas Santore 1984 |
Type species | |
Pyrenomonas salina (Wislouch 1924) Santore 1984
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Species[3] | |
Pyrenomonas is a genus of cryptomonad.[4]
Pyrenomonas salina, the type species, was characterized in 1984[5] but has since been renamed to Rhodomonas salina.[6] Therefore, making the genus Pyrenomonas a synonym of Rhodomonas.