Pteridomonas | |
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Light micrograph of Pteridomonas danica | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
Clade: | SAR |
Clade: | Stramenopiles |
Phylum: | Gyrista |
Subphylum: | Ochrophytina |
Class: | Dictyochophyceae |
Order: | Pedinellales |
Family: | Actinomonadaceae |
Genus: | Pteridomonas Penard, 1890 |
Type species | |
Pteridomonas pulex Penard, 1890[1]
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Species | |
Pteridomonas is a genus of heterotrophic flagellates belonging to the phylum Ochrophyta. It was described in 1890 by Eugène Penard. Species of this genus descend from a group of photosynthetic algae but have secondarily lost their chloroplasts. They are single-celled flagellates, attached to the substrate by a stalk and distinguished by a ring of tentacles around the single flagellum. They can be found in marine, brackish or freshwater environments.