Picozoa, Picobiliphyta, Picobiliphytes, or Biliphytes are protists of a phylum of marine unicellular heterotrophic eukaryotes with a size of less than about 3 micrometers. They were formerly treated as eukaryotic algae and the smallest member of photosynthetic picoplankton before it was discovered they do not perform photosynthesis.[2] The first species identified therein is Picomonas judraskeda.[1] They probably belong in the Archaeplastida as sister of the Rhodophyta.[3][4][5]
They were formerly placed within the cryptomonads-haptophytes assemblage.[6]
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Picozoa, Picobiliphyta, Picobiliphytes, or Biliphytes are protists of a phylum of marine unicellular heterotrophic eukaryotes with a size of less than...
"Picomonas judraskeda Gen. Et Sp. Nov.: The First Identified Member of the Picozoa Phylum Nov., a Widespread Group of Picoeukaryotes, Formerly Known as 'Picobiliphytes'"...
relatives) and SAR supergroup, the Cryptista, Haptista, Telonemia and picozoa. One view of the great kingdoms and their stem groups. The Metamonada are...
Nandina. Picomonas judraskeda is the only known species in the division Picozoa. The madrone butterfly is the only species in the monotypic genus Eucheira...
was published on these inconsistencies. The position of Telonemia and Picozoa are not clear. Also Hacrobia (Haptista + Cryptista) may be completely associated...
single-celled organisms such as desmids (from 10 micrometres across) and picozoa (less than 3 micrometres across), to the largest trees (megaflora) such...
aquatic environments and is the sister group to red algae and possibly Picozoa. While red algae have no flagellated stages and are generally photoautotrophic...
directly through a single event of endosymbiosis with a cyanobacterium: Picozoa (1 species), non-photosynthetic predators. Glaucophyta (26 species), unicellular...
Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus. Cyanobacteria Picoplankton Picoeukaryote Picozoa Plankton § Size groups Trinh S, Haggoud A, Reysset G (December 1996). "Conjugal...
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