''Stylobryon'' is a

monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unisp ...

genus of

golden algae The Chrysophyceae, usually called chrysophytes, chrysomonads, golden-brown algae, or golden algae, are a large group of algae, found mostly in freshwater. Golden algae is also commonly used to refer to a single species, '' Prymnesium parvum'', wh ...

in the family

Dinobryaceae Dinobryaceae is a family of algae Algae ( , ; : alga ) is an informal term for any organisms of a large and diverse group of photosynthesis, photosynthetic organisms that are not plants, and includes species from multiple distinct clades. ...

. It has one known species ''Stylobryon insignis'' . Stylobryon has been found in numerous lakes, notably

Lake Erie Lake Erie ( ) is the fourth-largest lake by surface area of the five Great Lakes in North America and the eleventh-largest globally. It is the southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume of the Great Lakes and also has the shortest avera ...

. In 1866, Alfred Cheatham Stokes, described ''Stylobryon abbottii'' in North America. This is now accepted as '' Poteriodendron petiolatum'' var. ''abbottii'' .

References

External links

''Stylobryon'' at algaebase.org

''Stylobryon'' at the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
Chrysophyceae Golden algae genera Monotypic algae genera Taxa described in 1874 {{Heterokont-stub