Pirsoniales

<i>Pirsonia</i>

Pirsonia

Genus of single-celled organisms

Pirsonia is a non photosynthetic genus of heterokonts.[1][2] It comprises the entirety of the family Pirsoniaceae, order Pirsoniida and class Pirsonea in the subphylum Bigyromonada, phylum Gyrista.[3]

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Taxonomy

  • Class Pirsonea Cavalier-Smith 2017[3] [Pirsoniomycetes]
    • Order Pirsoniales Cavalier-Smith 1998 [Pirsoniida Cavalier-Smith & Chao 2006]
      • Family Pirsoniaceae Cavalier-Smith 1998
        • Pirsonia Schnepf, Debres & Elbrachter 1990
          • P. diadema Kühn 1996
          • P. eucampiae Kühn 1996
          • P. formosa Kühn 1996
          • P. guinardie Schnepf, Debres & Elbrachter 1990
          • P. mucosa Kühn 1996
          • P. punctigerae
          • P. verrucosa Kühn 1996

References

  1. [1]
    Ruggiero; et al. (2015), "Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms", PLOS ONE, 10 (4): e0119248, Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1019248R, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0119248, PMC 4418965, PMID 25923521
  2. [2]
    Silar, Philippe (2016), "Protistes Eucaryotes: Origine, Evolution et Biologie des Microbes Eucaryotes", HAL Archives-ouvertes: 1–462
  3. [3]
    Cavalier-Smith, Thomas (5 September 2017). "Kingdom Chromista and its eight phyla: a new synthesis emphasising periplastid protein targeting, cytoskeletal and periplastid evolution, and ancient divergences". Protoplasma. 255 (1): 297–357. doi:10.1007/s00709-017-1147-3. PMC 5756292. PMID 28875267.
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