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Classification: |
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Chroomonas Hansgirg 1885; 20 of 55 species descriptions are currently accepted taxonomically (Guiry and Guiry 2013).
Order Pyrenomonadales; Family Chroomonadaceae
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Morphology: |
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Photosynthetic biflagellate stage alternates with mucilaginous palmelloid colonies. Tubular gullet lined with two to four rows of ejectisomes. One chloroplast and pyrenoid. Color varies from blue to cyan to green depending on concentration of phycocyanin. May have a stigma. Only asexual reproduction by simple cell division is known (Guiry and Guiry 2013). The plasmalemma is covered with discrete hexagonal plates visible only ultrastructurally (Novarino and Oliva 1998; Noavarino 2003).
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Similar genera: |
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Komma Hill and Falcomonas Hill are similar with light microscopy, but differ substantially in ultrastructure (seen only with electron microscopy) (Novarino 2011). |
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Habitat: |
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Freshwater and marine plankton |
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References: |
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Guiry, M.D. and G.M. Guiry 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 30 April 2013. Novarino, G. 2003. A companion to the identification of cryptomonad flagellates (Cryptophyceae = Cryptomonadea). Hydrobiologia 502:225-270. Novarino, G., and E. Oliva 1998. Typification and ultrastructural charactererisation of long-described flagellate taxa based on original type material. In: The Flagellates Symposium, University of Birmingham, 7-22 September 1998 (abstract. |
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