Picozoa
Picozoa, Picobiliphyta, Picobiliphytes, or Biliphytes are protists of a phylum of marine unicellular heterotrophic eukaryotes with a size of less than about 3 micrometers. They were formerly treated as eukaryotic algae and the smallest member of photosynthetic picoplankton before it was discovered they do not perform photosynthesis. The first species identified therein is Picomonas judraskeda. They probably belong in the Archaeplastida as sister of the Rhodophyta.
| Picozoa | |
|---|---|
| Movement of a Picomonas judraskeda cell | |
| Animation of the 3D structure of Picomonas judraskeda | |
| Scientific classification | |
| (unranked): | Archaeplastida |
| Phylum: | Picozoa Seenivasan, Sausen, Medlin, Melkonian, 2013 |
They were formerly placed within the cryptomonads-haptophytes assemblage.
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