Pyramimonadales are an

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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

Chlorophyta Chlorophyta is a division of green algae informally called chlorophytes. Description Chlorophytes are eukaryotic organisms composed of cells with a variety of coverings or walls, and usually a single green chloroplast in each cell. They are ...

. The chloroplasts of phototrophic

euglenids Euglenids or euglenoids are one of the best-known groups of eukaryotic flagellates: single-celled organisms with flagella, or whip-like tails. They are classified in the phylum Euglenophyta, class Euglenida or Euglenoidea. Euglenids are commonly ...

probably came from endosymbiosis with a member of this order.

Taxonomy

* Family Polyblepharidaceae Dangeard 1888 ** Genus '' Amphoraemonas'' Szabados 1948 ** Genus ''Chloraster'' Ehrenberg 1848 non Haworth 1824 ** Genus '' Gyromitus'' Skuja 1939 ** Genus '' Korschikoffia'' Pascher 1927 ** Genus '' Polyblepharides'' Dangeard 1888 ** Genus '' Printziella'' Skvortzov 1958 ** Genus '' Stephanoptera'' Dangeard 1910 ** Genus '' Sycamina'' van Tieghem 1880 * Family Pterospermataceae Lohmann 1904 ** Genus '' Polyasterias'' Meunier 1910 ** Genus '' Pterosperma'' Pouchet 1893 * Family Pyramimonadaceae Korshikov 1938 alosphaeraceae Haeckel 1894** Genus '' Angulomonas'' Skvortzov 1968 ** Genus '' Coccopterum'' Silva 1970 ** Genus '' Cymbomonas'' Schiller 1913 ** Genus '' Halosphaera'' Schmitz 1879 ** Genus '' Kuzminia'' Skvortzov 1958 ** Genus '' Pocillomonas'' Steinecke 1926 ** Genus '' Prasinochloris'' Belcher 1966 ** Genus '' Protoaceromonas'' Skvortzov 1968 ** Genus '' Protochroomonas'' Skvortzov 1968 ** Genus ''

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. References

'' Schmarda 1849 ** Genus '' Tasmanites'' E.T.Newton ** Genus '' Trichloridella'' Silva 1970

References

Chlorophyta orders Pyramimonadophyceae {{green algae-stub