Pelagomonas
Genus of single-celled organisms
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Pelagomonas is a genus of heterokont algae. It is a monotypic genus and includes a single species, Pelagomonas calceolata[1][2] which is a unicellular flagellate organism, a ubiquitous constituent of marine picoplankton.[3][4] It is an ultra-planktonic marine alga.
| Pelagomonas | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Supergroup: | Stramenopiles |
| Division: | Ochrophyta |
| Class: | Dictyochophyceae |
| Order: | Pelagomonadales |
| Family: | Pelagomonadaceae |
| Genus: | Pelagomonas R.A.Andersen & G.W.Saunders |
| Species: | P. calceolata |
| Binomial name | |
| Pelagomonas calceolata R.A.Andersen & G.W.Saunders | |
Description
Pelagomonas calceolata is uniflagellate, about 1.5 × 3 μm in size. Microtubular roots, striated roots and a second basal body are absent. A thin organic theca surrounds most of the cell. There is a single chloroplast with a girdle lamella and a single, dense mitochondrion with tubular cristae. A single Golgi body with swelled cisternae lies beneath the flagellum, and each cell has an ejectile organelle that putatively releases a cylindrical structure. A vacuole, or cluster of vacuoles, contains the putative carbohydrate storage product.[4]
