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. In 1967, R.W. Butcher relegated the group to a subgenus within Chroomonas.
It is now regarded as paraphyletic, with its species now various reassigned into Pyrenomonas, Rhinomonas and Cryptomonas.

Species

Cryptochrysis amoeboidea Pascher 1917Cryptochrysis atlantica Lackey 1940Cryptochrysis carinata Czosnowski 1948Cryptochrysis commutata Pascher 1911Chroomonas fragarioides Cryptochrysis fulva Butcher 1952Cryptochrysis gigas Pascher 1917Cryptochrysis lateralis Butcher 1952Cryptochrysis magna Kufferath 1942Cryptochrysis minor Nygaard 1950Cryptochrysis minutissima Cryptochrysis ovalis Petersen & Hansen 1961Cryptochrysis pochmannii Huber-Pestalozzi 1950Cryptochrysis polychrysis Pascher 1913Cryptochrysis rubens