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Prymnesium

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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.

Species

プリムネシウム属

GENUS

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

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Prymnesiaceae
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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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