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Pyramimonadales
Pyramimonadales are an order of green algae in the Chlorophyta. The chloroplasts of phototrophic euglenids probably came from endosymbiosis with a member of this order.
Pyramimonas
Pyramimonas is a genus of green algae in the order Pyramimonadales. Phototropic euglenids inherited their plastids from a close relative of Pyramimonas which was an endosymbiont inside phagotrophic eukaryovorous euglenids.
Pyramimonadophyceae
Pyramimonadophyceae is a class of green algae in the division Chlorophyta. In 2024, one of its former members, Pseudoscourfieldiales, was classified into the new class Pseudoscourfieldiophyceae.
Pyramimonadaceae
Pyramimonadaceae is a family of green algae.
Pycnococcaceae
Pseudoscourfieldiaceae, formerly Pycnococcaceae is a family of green algae in the order Pseudoscourfieldiales. The defining features of this family include the single invagination of the pyrenoid where the mitochondrial membrane fits into it and the "decapore" - a ring of 10 pores through the thick cell wall.
Halosphaera
Halosphaera is a genus of green algae in the order Pyramimonadales.
Cymbomonas
Cymbomonas is a genus of green algae in the order Pyramimonadales.