Pyramimonadales

Pyramimonadales
Pyramimonas sp.
Scientific classification
(unranked): Viridiplantae
Division: Chlorophyta
Class: Pyramimonadophyceae
Order: Pyramimonadales
Chadefaud
Families
  • Polyblepharidaceae Dangeard 1888
  • Pterospermataceae Lohmann 1904
  • Pyramimonadaceae Korshikov 1938

Pyramimonadales are an order of green algae in the Chlorophyta. The chloroplasts of phototrophic euglenids 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 [Halosphaeraceae 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 Schmarda 1849
    • Genus Tasmanites E.T.Newton
    • Genus Trichloridella Silva 1970