DIVISION

CRYPTOMONAS

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phycobiliprotein

Ejectosome

Characteristics of the Cryptophyta

( after South & Whittick 1987, Table 2.2)
Main
pigments
Nuclear
material
Food
reserves

Chlorophyll-a and Chlorophyll-c, aCarotene, Xanthophylls (diatoxanthan),

phycoerythrin, phycocyanin;
Chlorophyll-b is never present.
Organised into membrane-bound nucleus
Starch-like

Chloroplast present, membrane 2-layered but

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with an extra two layers of endoplasmic
Chloroplast reticulum that is other continuous with the
features
nuclear envelope, the thylakoids are paired;
phycobilin pigments are present, but not in
phycobilisomes; nucleomorph present.
chloroplast
endoplasmi present
c reticulum
Cell wall

Periplast

Flagella

Two, with lateral hairs


1.1

a c
1.2
- , , carotene ( )
- xanthophyll alloxanthin,
crocoxanthin, monadoxanthin,
caexanthin
phycobilin phycobiliprotein
phycocyanin phycoerythrin

periplast plasma membrane

- Chloroplast --Chlorophyll a, c
Chloroplast
1-2


- - 1, 4-

glucan ( )

C = chloroplast.
FU = furrow.
G = golgi.
PY = pyrenoid.
S = starch.
E, e = large and small
ejectosomes (respectively).
V = contractile vacuole.
EY = eyespot

2
species
1-2


ejectosome-
gutlet
trichocyst

 ejectosome
Hillea

(pamelloid stage)

(zooxanthellae)

zooxanthellae

Mesodinium rudrum

(red tide)

(binary

fission)

Cryptomonas Cryptomonas

(furruw)

4

2 4 2
2 1
(haploid vegetative cells)

12
200 100
100
Lee ,Parke and Dixon
Thorondson
Smith

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Division Cryptohyta
Class Cryptophyceae
Order

Goniomonadales
Family Goniomonadaceae
Order Cryptomonadales
Family Hilleaceae
Family Hemiselmidaceae
Family Cryptomonadaceae
Order Chroomonadales
Family Hilleaceae

Order 1 Goniomonadales

Family Goniomonadaceae

Goniomonas

Genus: Small, oval, compressed, anterior end obliquely truncate; without chloroplasts;
with two equal or subequal anterior flagella; colorless; contractile vacuole anterior
(Kudo, 1966).

Order2 Cryptomonadales

Family1 Hileaceae

Hillea

Family 2 Hemiselmidaceae

(tranverse furrow)
(gullet)

Helmiselmis

Nephroselmis

Protochrysis

Nephroselmis

Nephroselmis

 Family3

Cryptomonadaceae

Cryptomonas

Chilomonas
Cryptomonas
saprozoic

Rhodomonas

2

1

Leucocryptos
2

(phagotrophic)
Leucocryptos marina
L. remigera

Plagioselmis

2

Rhinomonas
2
1
1

Teleaulax

Order 3 Chroomonadales

1
Family Choomonadaceae
Chroomonas

Ochromonas

Division Cryptophyta
( Cryptomonads )

dinoflagellate

Cryptomonads

( ---- phycobiliprotein )

ejectosome

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utrastructure

1.

periplast

2.

blue-green, reddish, red-brown,

3.
olive-green, brown

**Species

phycocyanin / phycoerythrin


1 class 3 order
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Class Cryptophyceae
order Goniomonadales
order Cryptomonadales

phycobiliprotein,phycoxanthrin

order Chroomonadaceae
phycobilin,phycocyanin

 -- 3 genus

---Chroomonas

13-15 m
---Rhodomonas
15-80 m reddish, red-brown, olivegreen, yellow brown---Cryptomonas

Red Cryptomonas = Rhodomonas?

Cryptomonas

Rhodomonas

328

Chroomonas

Polluted

326

Polluted

324