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Rhodomonas Karsten

genus / CRYPTOMONADIDA

Description

(=Pyrenomonas Santore) Cells with a variable furrow and a short tubular gullet. Periplast consisting of inner, more or less square plates which taper slightly toward the anterior and a surface component of intertwining fibrils . The periplastidial compartment usually has a single , bilobed chloroplast with a pyrenoid situated between the 2 lobes of the chloroplast. Thylakoids do not traverse the pyrenoid. Nucleo- morph located in an evagination of the periplastidal cytoplasm into the pyrenoid . Cells not necessarily colored red ; chloroplasts contain Cr-phyco-erythrin 545 . Marine and freshwater (Erata and Chihara , 1989 ; Novarino , 1993 ; and Santore , 1984) .

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(=Pyrenomonas Santore)
Cells with a variable furrow and a short tubular
gullet. Periplast consisting of inner, more or less
square plates which taper slightly toward the
anterior and a surface component of intertwining
fibrils . The periplastidial compartment usually
has a single , bilobed chloroplast with a pyrenoid
situated between the 2 lobes of the chloroplast.
Thylakoids do not traverse the pyrenoid. Nucleo-
morph located in an evagination of the
periplastidal cytoplasm into the pyrenoid . Cells
not necessarily colored red ; chloroplasts contain
Cr-phyco-erythrin 545 . Marine and freshwater
(Erata and Chihara , 1989 ; Novarino , 1993 ; and
Santore , 1984) .