Abstract
Several taxa of cryptomonads, including species of marineChroomonas, Cryptomonas and freshwaterRhodomonas were examined using transmission electron microscopy. They have cellular structures fundamentally in common: a single bilobed chlorplast, a single pyrenoid between the chloroplast lobes, and a nuclemorph embedded within a cleft of the pyrenoidal matrix. These features are in accordance with the taxonomic characteristics of the recently established genusPyrenomonas. The algae also have similar pigmentation to that ofRhodomonas andPyrenomonas which is red or reddish-brown. On the basis of these observations, the genusRhodomonas Karsten (1898) is redescribed in this paper and the genusPyrenomonas Santore is considered to be synonymous withRhodomonas.
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Abbreviations
- C:
-
chloroplast
- CER:
-
chloroplast ER
- CV:
-
contractile vacuole
- Fg:
-
fibrillogranular body
- G:
-
globules
- Go:
-
Golgi body
- Gu:
-
gullet
- M:
-
mitochondrion
- N:
-
nucleus
- Nm:
-
nucleomorph
- Nu:
-
nucleolus
- Py:
-
pyrenoid
- S:
-
starch
- T:
-
large trichocyst
- t:
-
small trichocyst
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Erata, M., Chihara, M. Re-examination ofPyrenomonas andRhodomonas (class cryptophyceae) through ultrastructural survey of red pigmented cryptomonads. Bot. Mag. Tokyo 102, 429–443 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02488125
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