Cryptochrysis

Cryptochrysis is a formerly recognized genus of cryptomonads first proposed by Adolf Pascher in 1911. He initially treated it as the sole genus in family Cryptochrysidaceae, but later treated it as a member of the Cryptochrysideae subfamily of Cryptomonadaceae, along with Rhodomonas, Chroomonas, and Cyanomonas.[1][2] In 1967, R.W. Butcher relegated the group to a subgenus within Chroomonas.[3]

Cryptochrysis
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Division:
Cryptophyta
Class:
Cryptophyceae
Order:
Cryptomonadales
Family:
Cryptochrysidaceae
Genus:
Cryptochrysis
Species
  • Cryptochrysis amoeboidea
  • Cryptochrysis atlantica
  • Cryptochrysis carinata
  • Cryptochrysis commutata
  • Cryptochrysis fulva
  • Cryptochrysis gigas
  • Cryptochrysis lateralis
  • Cryptochrysis magna
  • Cryptochrysis minor
  • Cryptochrysis minutissima
  • Cryptochrysis ovalis
  • Cryptochrysis polychrysis
  • Cryptochrysis virescens

It is now regarded as paraphyletic, with its species now various reassigned into Pyrenomonas and Rhinomonas since 1988.[4]

References
  1. Pascher (1911), "Zwei braune Flagellaten", Berichte der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft, 29: 190–192
  2. Pascher (1913), Die Süsswasser-Flora: Deutschlands, Österreichs und der Schweiz, 2, pp. 99–114
  3. Butcher (1967), An Introductory Account of the Smaller Algae of British Coastal Waters.
  4. Hill and Wetherbee (1988), "The structure and taxonomy of Rhinomonas pauca gen. et sp. nov. (Cryptophyceae)", Phycologia, 27 (3)
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