Cryptochrysis

Cryptochrysis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Division:	Cryptophyta
Class:	Cryptophyceae
Order:	Cryptomonadales
Family:	Cryptochrysidaceae
Genus:	Cryptochrysis; Pascher 1911
Type species
	Cryptochrysis commutata; Pascher 1911
Synonyms
	Chroomonas (Cryptochrysis) (Pascher 1911) Butcher 1967;

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.^[1]^[2] In 1967, R.W. Butcher relegated the group to a subgenus within Chroomonas.^[3]

It is now regarded as paraphyletic, with its species now various reassigned into Pyrenomonas and Rhinomonas since 1988.^[4]

Species

^ Pascher (1911), "Zwei braune Flagellaten", Berichte der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft, 29: 190–192
^ Pascher (1913), Die Süsswasser-Flora: Deutschlands, Österreichs und der Schweiz, vol. 2, pp. 99–114
^ Butcher (1967), An Introductory Account of the Smaller Algae of British Coastal Waters.
^ Hill and Wetherbee (1988), "The structure and taxonomy of Rhinomonas pauca gen. et sp. nov. (Cryptophyceae)", Phycologia, 27 (3): 355–365, doi:10.2216/i0031-8884-27-3-355.1