Pyramimonas
Appearance
	
	
| Pyramimonas | |
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| Pyramimonas tetrarhynchus | |
| Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae | 
| Division: | Chlorophyta | 
| Class: | Pyramimonadophyceae | 
| Order: | Pyramimonadales | 
| Family: | Pyramimonadaceae | 
| Genus: | Pyramimonas Schmarda, 1849  | 
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Pyramimonas is a genus of green algae in the order Pyramimonadales.[1] Phototropic euglenids inherited their plastids from a close relative of Pyramimonas which was an endosymbiont inside phagotrophic eukaryovorous euglenids.[2]

References
[edit]- ^ "Pyramimonas". NCBI. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
 - ^ Zakryś, B; Milanowski, R; Karnkowska, Anna (2017). "Evolutionary Origin of Euglena". Euglena: Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. Vol. 979. pp. 3–17. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-54910-1_1. ISBN 978-3-319-54908-8. PMID 28429314.
 
