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Prymnesium
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Prymnesium

Prymnesium is a genus of haptophytes, including the species Prymnesium parvum. The genus is a unicellular motile alga. It is ellipsoidal in shape one flagellum is straight and there are two longer ones which enable movement.

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4 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Golden Algae

speciesPrymnesium parvum

Prymnesium pigrum

speciesPrymnesium pigrum

Prymnesium polylepis

speciesPrymnesium polylepis

Prymnesium calathiferum

speciesPrymnesium calathiferum

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 325539.