Picozoa | |
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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[1] |
Genera | |
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.[2] The first species identified therein is Picomonas judraskeda.[1] They probably belong in the Archaeplastida as sister of the Rhodophyta.[3][4][5]
They were formerly placed within the cryptomonads-haptophytes assemblage.[6]
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