| Schizochytrium | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
| Clade: | SAR |
| Clade: | Stramenopiles |
| Phylum: | Bigyra |
| Class: | Labyrinthulea |
| Order: | Thraustochytrida |
| Family: | Thraustochytriidae |
| Genus: | Schizochytrium S. Goldst. & Belsky emend. T. Booth & C. E. Mill. [1] |
| Species | |
Schizochytrium is a genus of unicellular eukaryote in the family Thraustochytriaceae, which are found in coastal marine habitats. They are assigned to the Stramenopiles (heterokonts), a group which also contains kelp and various microalgae.
- ^ Rinka Yokoyama & Daiske Honda (2007). "Taxonomic rearrangement of the genus Schizochytrium sensu lato based on morphology, chemotaxonomic characteristics, and 18S rRNA gene phylogeny (Thraustochytriaceae, Labyrinthulomycetes): emendation for Schizochytrium and erection of Aurantiochytrium and Oblongichytrium gen. nov". Mycoscience. 48 (4): 199–211. doi:10.1007/s10267-006-0362-0. S2CID 86418053.
- ^ a b "Schizochytrium". www.uniprot.org.
- ^ Honda, Daiske; Yokochi, Toshihiro; Nakahara, Toro; Erata, Mayumi; Higashihara, Takanori (April 1998). "Schizochytrium limacinum sp. nov., a new thraustochytrid from a mangrove area in the west Pacific Ocean". Mycological Research. 102 (4): 439–448. doi:10.1017/S0953756297005170.