Higher Classification: > Kingdom Chromista > Subkingdom Hacrobia > Phylum Cryptophyta > Class Cryptophyceae > Order Cryptomonadales > Family Cryptomonadaceae > Genus Cryptomonas

Cryptomonas ovata Ehrenberg, 1832

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Cryptomonas*	Ehrenberg, 1831	accepted genus name
*Cryptomonas baltica*	(Karsten) Butcher, 1967	taxonomically included in
*Cryptomonas curvata*	Ehrenberg, 1832	taxonomically included in
*Cryptomonas erosa*	Ehrenberg, 1832	taxonomically included in
*Cryptomonas kielensis*	Pascher, 1911	taxonomically included in
*Cryptomonas obovata*	Czosnowski, 1948	taxonomically included in
*Cryptomonas ovata*	Ehrenberg, 1832	taxonomically included in
*Cryptomonas pelagica*	Lohmann, 1902	taxonomically included in
*Cryptomonas platyuris*	Skuja, 1948	taxonomically included in
*Cryptomonas profunda*	R.W.Butcher, 1967	taxonomically included in
*Cryptomonas prora*	W.Conrad & H.Kufferath	taxonomically included in
*Cryptomonas pyrenoidifera*	Geitler, 1922	taxonomically included in
*Cryptomonas reticulata*	I.A.N.Lucas, 1968	taxonomically included in

Literature

original description	Ehrenberg, C.G. (1832). Über die Entwickelung und Lebensdauer der Infusionsthiere; nebst ferneren Beiträgen zu einer Vergleichung ihrer organischen Systeme. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Physikalische Klasse. 1831: 1-154.
basis of record	Louis, A.; Petes, J. (1979). Fluctuations écologiques et algologiques dans les estuaires belges (Oostende, Blankenberge et Nieuwpoort): 1. Données de base [Ecological and algological fluctuations in the Belgian estuaries (Oostende, Blankenberge and Nieuwpoort): 1. Basic data]. Studia Algologica Lovaniensia, 7. Story-Scientia: Louvain, Belgium. XXXVI, 355 pp.
additional source	Campbell, P.H. (1973). Studies on brackish water phytoplankton. UNC.SG.73.07. pp. 1-406. Chapel Hill: Sea Grant Publications, University of North Carolina.
additional source	Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. searched on YYYY-MM-DD.

Genbank

Taxonomy

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Citation

Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway (taxonomic information republished from AlgaeBase with permission of M.D. Guiry). Cryptomonas ovata Ehrenberg, 1832. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:155554