Biology:Rhizochromulina

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Short description: Genus of single-celled organisms

Rhizochromulina
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: SAR
Clade: Stramenopiles
Phylum: Gyrista
Subphylum: Ochrophytina
Class: Dictyochophyceae
Order: Rhizochromulinales
Family: Rhizochromulinaceae
Genus: Rhizochromulina
D.J.Hibberd & Chrétiennot-Dinet
Species:
R. marina
Binomial name
Rhizochromulina marina
D.J.Hibberd & Chrétiennot-Dinet

Rhizochromulina is an unusual genus of marine heterokont algae, with one species, Rhizocromulina marina.[1] They are colored amoeboids with a single flagellum, and produce distinctive spindle-shaped zoospores. These have a cell structure typical of the axodines. Before it was studied in detail, Rhizochromulina was included among the superficially similar golden algae in the order Chrysamoebales, but these produce zoospores which are similar to flagellate golden algae in form.

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