Cryptochrysis Explained

Cryptochrysis is a formerly recognized genus of cryptomonads first proposed by Adolf Pascher in 1911. He initially treated it as the sole genus in family Cryptochrysidaceae, but later treated it as a member of the Cryptochrysideae subfamily of Cryptomonadaceae, along with Rhodomonas, Chroomonas, and Cyanomonas. In 1967, R.W. Butcher relegated the group to a subgenus within Chroomonas.

It is now regarded as paraphyletic, with its species now various reassigned into Pyrenomonas and Rhinomonas since 1988.

Species

• Cryptochrysis amoeboidea Pascher 1917
• Cryptochrysis atlantica Lackey 1940
• Cryptochrysis carinata Czosnowski 1948
• Cryptochrysis commutata Pascher 1911
• Cryptochrysis fulva
• Cryptochrysis gigas Pascher 1917
• Cryptochrysis lateralis
• Cryptochrysis magna Kufferath 1942
• Cryptochrysis minor Nygaard 1950
• Cryptochrysis minutissima
• Cryptochrysis ovalis Petersen & Hansen 1961
• Cryptochrysis pochmannii Huber-Pestalozzi 1950
• Cryptochrysis polychrysis Pascher 1913
• Cryptochrysis rubens
• Cryptochrysis virescens