Pelagomonas

Pelagomonas
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: SAR
Clade: Stramenopiles
Phylum: Gyrista
Subphylum: Ochrophytina
Class: Dictyochophyceae
Order: Pelagomonadales
Family: Pelagomonadaceae
Genus: Pelagomonas
R.A.Andersen & G.W.Saunders
Species:
P. calceolata
Binomial name
Pelagomonas calceolata
R.A.Andersen & G.W.Saunders

Pelagomonas is a genus of heterokont algae. It is a monotypic genus and includes a single species, Pelagomonas calceolata[1][2] which is a unicellular flagellate organism, an ubiquitous constituent of marine picoplankton.[3][4] It is an ultra-planktonic marine alga.

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  4. ^ Andersen, Robert A.; Sounders, Gary W.; Paskind, Michael P.; Sexton, Julianne P. (1993). "Ultrastructure and 18Srrna Gene Sequence Forpelagomonas Calceolatagen. Et Sp. Nov. And the Description of a New Algal Class, the Pelagophyceae Classis Nov.1". Journal of Phycology. 29 (5): 701–715. Bibcode:1993JPcgy..29..701A. doi:10.1111/j.0022-3646.1993.00701.x. ISSN 0022-3646. S2CID 86440314.