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Prymnesium is a genus of haptophytes, including the species Prymnesium parvum. The genus is a unicellular motile alga. It is ellipsoidal in shape one flagellum is straight and there are two longer ones which enable movement.

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プリムネシウム属

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  1. KingdomChromista
  2. PhylumHaptophyta
  3. ClassPrymnesiophyceae
  4. OrderPrymnesiales
  5. FamilyPrymnesiaceae
Habitatmarine, brackish, freshwater

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Prymnesium is a genus of haptophytes, including the species Prymnesium parvum. The genus is a unicellular motile alga. It is ellipsoidal in shape one flagellum is straight and there are two longer ones which enable movement.

The name Latinizes the Greek ' ‘cable (for mooring)’, from ' ‘stern’, from '' ‘hindmost’.

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