Cryptochrysis

Cryptochrysis is a formerly recognized genus of cryptomonads first proposed by Adolf Pascher in 1911. He initially treated it as the sole genus in family Cryptochrysidaceae, but later treated it as a member of the Cryptochrysideae subfamily of Cryptomonadaceae, along with Rhodomonas, Chroomonas, and Cyanomonas.[1][2] In 1967, R.W. Butcher relegated the group to a subgenus within Chroomonas.[3]

Cryptochrysis
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Division:
Cryptophyta
Class:
Cryptophyceae
Order:
Cryptomonadales
Family:
Cryptochrysidaceae
Genus:
Cryptochrysis

Pascher 1911
Type species
Cryptochrysis commutata
Pascher 1911
Synonyms
  • Chroomonas (Cryptochrysis) (Pascher 1911) Butcher 1967

It is now regarded as paraphyletic, with its species now various reassigned into Pyrenomonas and Rhinomonas since 1988.[4]

Species
  • Cryptochrysis amoeboidea Pascher 1917
  • Cryptochrysis atlantica Lackey 1940
  • Cryptochrysis carinata Czosnowski 1948
  • Cryptochrysis commutata Pascher 1911
  • Cryptochrysis fulva
  • Cryptochrysis gigas Pascher 1917
  • Cryptochrysis lateralis
  • Cryptochrysis magna Kufferath 1942
  • Cryptochrysis minor Nygaard 1950
  • Cryptochrysis minutissima
  • Cryptochrysis ovalis Petersen & Hansen 1961
  • Cryptochrysis pochmannii Huber-Pestalozzi 1950
  • Cryptochrysis polychrysis Pascher 1913
  • Cryptochrysis rubens
  • Cryptochrysis virescens

References
  1. Pascher (1911), "Zwei braune Flagellaten", Berichte der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft, 29: 190–192
  2. Pascher (1913), Die Süsswasser-Flora: Deutschlands, Österreichs und der Schweiz, 2, pp. 99–114
  3. Butcher (1967), An Introductory Account of the Smaller Algae of British Coastal Waters.
  4. Hill and Wetherbee (1988), "The structure and taxonomy of Rhinomonas pauca gen. et sp. nov. (Cryptophyceae)", Phycologia, 27 (3)
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