Prymnesium
Prymnesium is a genus of haptophytes, including the species Prymnesium parvum. The genus is a unicellular motile alga. It is ellipsoidal in shape one flagellum is straight and there are two longer ones which enable movement.
| Prymnesium | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
| Phylum: | Haptista |
| Subphylum: | Haptophytina |
| Class: | Prymnesiophyceae |
| Order: | Prymnesiales |
| Family: | Prymnesiaceae |
| Genus: | Prymnesium Massart, 1920 emend. Edvardsen, Eikrem & Probert, 2011 |
The name Latinizes the Greek prymnēsion ‘cable (for mooring)’, from prymna ‘stern’, from prymnos ‘hindmost’.
Prymnesium was likely first recognized and drawn (although not named as such) on July 1, 1920, and then (seemingly independently) officially named shortly afterwards on July 6, 1920.
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