Pyramimonas

Pyramimonas
	Pyramimonas tetrarhynchus
Scientific classification
Clade:	Viridiplantae
Division:	Chlorophyta
Class:	Pyramimonadophyceae
Order:	Pyramimonadales
Family:	Pyramimonadaceae
Genus:	Pyramimonas; Schmarda 1849
Species
	Pyramimonas aureus; Pyramimonas australis; Pyramimonas cirolanae; Pyramimonas cyclotreta; Pyramimonas cyrtoptera; Pyramimonas disomata; Pyramimonas grossii; Pyramimonas mantoniae; Pyramimonas mitra; Pyramimonas moestrupii; Pyramimonas octopus; Pyramimonas olivacea; Pyramimonas orientalis; Pyramimonas parkeae; Pyramimonas propulsa; Pyramimonas tetrarhynchus; Pyramimonas tychotreta;

Pyramimonas is a genus of green algae in the order Pyramimonadales.^[1] Phototropic euglenids inherited their plastids from a close relative of Pyramimonas which was an endosymbiont inside phagotrophic eukaryovorous euglenids.^[2]

References

^ "Pyramimonas". NCBI. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
^ Zakryś, B; Milanowski, R; Karnkowska, Anna (2017). "Evolutionary Origin of Euglena". Adv Exp Med Biol. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. 979: 3–17. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-54910-1_1. ISBN 978-3-319-54908-8. PMID 28429314.