Protocryptomonas Skvortsov ex C.E.M.Bicudo, 1989

Holotype species: Protocryptomonas mukdenensis Skvortsov ex C.E.M.Bicudo

Original publication and holotype designation: Bicudo, C.E.M. (1989). Validation of the generic name Protocryptomonas (Cryptophyceae: Cryptomonadaceae). Taxon 38(1): 82-83.

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Description: Free-swimming, biflagellate, dorsiventrally asymmetric monads; with a firm, smooth, hyaline periplast; elliptic or obovate with rounded ends; non-metabolic; flagella unequal, subapically inserted, one twice the cell length, the other one and one-half times the cell length; chloroplasts absent; with five to ten spherical starch grains; a single contractile vacuole near the flagellar bases; nucleus central. A little known freshwater genus recorded only from cold water ponds, impure ditch water and standing water near Harbin, northern Manchuria, China. It differs from Cryptochrysis by not having chloroplasts.

Information contributed by: D.R.A. Hill. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2023-05-30 by E.A. Molinari Novoa.

Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Gender: This genus name is currently treated as feminine.

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Descriptions of chrysophyte genera were subsequently published in J. Kristiansen & H.R. Preisig (eds.). 2001. Encyclopedia of Chrysophyte Genera. Bibliotheca Phycologica 110: 1-260.

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E.A. Molinari Novoa in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 30 May 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 26 April 2024