Bolidophyceae is a class of photosynthetic heterokont picophytoplankton, and consist of less than 20 known species.[1][2][3] They are distinguished by the angle of flagellar insertion and swimming patterns as well as recent molecular analyses.[4] Bolidophyceae is the sister taxon to the diatoms (Bacillariophyceae). They lack the characteristic theca of the diatoms,[5] and have been proposed as an intermediate group between the diatoms and all other heterokonts.[4][6]
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- Class Bolidophyceae Guillou & Chretiennot-Dinet 1999[7]
- Order Parmales Booth & Marchant 1987
- Family Pentalaminaceae Marchant 1987
- Genus Pentalamina Marchant 1987
- Species Pentalamina corona Marchant 1987
- Family Triparmaceae Booth & Marchant 1988
- Genus Tetraparma Booth 1987
- Species T. catinifera
- Species T. gracilis
- Species T. insecta Bravo-Sierra & Hernández-Becerril 2003
- Species T. pelagica Booth & Marchant 1987
- Species T. silverae Fujita & Jordan 2017
- Species T. trullifera Fujita & Jordan 2017
- Genus Triparma Booth & Marchant 1987
- Species T. columacea Booth 1987
- Species T. eleuthera Ichinomiya & Lopes dos Santos 2016
- Species T. laevis Booth 1987
- Species T. mediterranea (Guillou & Chrétiennot-Dinet) Ichinomiya & Lopes dos Santos 2016
- Species T. pacifica (Guillou & Chrétiennot-Dinet) Ichinomiya & Lopes dos Santos 2016
- Species T. retinervis Booth 1987
- Species T. strigata Booth 1987
- Species T. verrucosa Booth 1987
In the gallery, all scale bar represent 1 μm.
The silicified Tetraparma pelagica
The silicified Triparma laevis f. inornata
The silicified Pentalamina corona
The flagellated Triparma eleuthera
Daugbjerg, N.; Guillou, L. (March 2001). "Phylogenetic analyses of Bolidophyceae (Heterokontophyta) using gene sequences support their sister group relationship to diatoms". Phycologia. 40 (2): 153–161. doi:10.2216/i0031-8884-40-2-153.1. S2CID 84171410. Ichinomiya, Mutsuo; dos Santos, Adriana Lopes; Gourvil, Priscillia; Yoshikawa, Shinya; Kamiya, Mitsunobu; Ohki, Kaori; Audic, Stéphane; de Vargas, Colomban; Noël, Mary-Hélène; Vaulot, Daniel; Kuwata, Akira (22 March 2016). "Diversity and oceanic distribution of the Parmales (Bolidophyceae), a picoplanktonic group closely related to diatoms". The ISME Journal. 10 (10): 2419–2434. doi:10.1038/ismej.2016.38. PMC 5030691. PMID 27003244. Retrieved 6 April 2018. M.D. Guiry (2016), AlgaeBase, World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway, retrieved 25 October 2016