Pyramimonadales Explained

Pyramimonadales are an order of green algae in the Chlorophyta.^[1] The chloroplasts of phototrophic euglenids probably came from endosymbiosis with a member of this order.^[2]

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 [Halosphaeraceae <small>Haeckel 1894</small>]
  • 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 Schmarda 1849
  • Genus Tasmanites E.T.Newton
  • Genus Trichloridella Silva 1970

Notes and References

1. See the NCBI webpage on Pyramimonadales. Data extracted from the Web site: NCBI taxonomy resources . . 2007-03-19.
2. 28429314 . 10.1007/978-3-319-54910-1_1 . 979 . Evolutionary Origin of Euglena . 2017 . Adv Exp Med Biol . 3–17 . Zakryś . B . Milanowski . R . Karnkowska . A.