Pyrenomonas
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Pyrenomonas is a genus of cryptomonad.[4]
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Pyrenomonas | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
Phylum: | Cryptista |
Class: | Cryptophyceae |
Order: | Pyrenomonadales |
Family: | Pyrenomonadaceae |
Genus: | Pyrenomonas Santore 1984 |
Type species | |
Pyrenomonas salina (Wislouch 1924) Santore 1984 | |
Species[1] | |
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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.