''Prasinoderma'' is a
genus
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of
green algae
The green algae (: green alga) are a group of chlorophyll-containing autotrophic eukaryotes consisting of the phylum Prasinodermophyta and its unnamed sister group that contains the Chlorophyta and Charophyta/ Streptophyta. The land plants ...
in the
phylum
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Prasinodermophyta
The marine Prasinodermophyta are a proposed basal Viridiplantae clade, as sister of another clade comprising the Chlorophyta and the Streptophyta
Streptophyta (), informally the streptophytes (, from the Greek ''strepto'' 'twisted', for the mo ...
.
Both species in the genus are
unicellular
A unicellular organism, also known as a single-celled organism, is an organism that consists of a single cell, unlike a multicellular organism that consists of multiple cells. Organisms fall into two general categories: prokaryotic organisms and ...
, but ''P. coloniale'' forms loose sticky colonies.
Classification
The genus contains two species:
* ''
Prasinoderma coloniale''
Hasegawa & Chihara 1996
* ''
Prasinoderma singularis''
Jouenne 2011
References
Prasinodermophyta genera
Palmophyllophyceae
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