Great Lakes Cryptophyte Species List

Division Pyrrhophyta - Class Cryptophyceae

• Family Cryptochrysidaceae
  • Genus Chroomonas
    • Chroomonas acuta*#
    • Chroomonas caudata*
    • Chroomonas nordstedtii*#
    • Chroomonas pochmanni*
  • Genus Rhodomonas
  • Rhodomonas lacustris*#
  • Rhodomonas lens*# DmDh
  • Rhodomonas minuta*#H DsDmDhDeDo
  • Rhodomonas pusilla*#
• Family Cryptomonadaceae
  • Genus Chilomonas
    • Chilomonas acuta*
  • Genus Cryptomonas
    • Cryptomonas brevis*#
    • Cryptomonas caudalus#
    • Cryptomonas caudata*#
    • Cryptomonas curvata*#
    • Cryptomonas erosa*#H DsDmDhDeDo
    • Cryptomonas lobata*
    • Cryptomonas marssonii*#
    • Cryptomonas obovata*
    • Cryptomonas ovata*# DmDo
    • Cryptomonas parapyrenoidifera*#
    • Cryptomonas phaseolus*#
    • Cryptomonas platyuris*#
    • Cryptomonas pusilla*
    • Cryptomonas pyrenoidiosa#
    • Cryptomonas pyrenoidifera*# Dh
    • Cryptomonas reflexa*#
    • Cryptomonas rostratiformis*#
    • Cryptomonas tenuis*
    • Cryptomonas tetrapyrenoidiosa*#

Based on: G.W. Prescott. 1962. Algae of the Western Great Lakes Area. Wm. C. Brown Co., Inc.

*Plankton in Lake Michigan 1983 - 1992 . EPA/GLNPO. Epilimnetic Phytoplankton and Zooplankton Biomass and Species Composition in Lake Michigan, 1983 to 1992. Joseph C. Makarewicz, Theodore Lewis and Paul Bertram. October 1994. [Reports Stylotheca aurea - Other references to this species of Chrysophyte cannot be found so this species is not included in the above list]

#Plankton in Lake Ontario 1986 - 1992. EPA/GLNPO. Epilimnetic Phytoplankton and Zooplankton Biomass and Species Composition in Lake Ontario, 1986 to 1992. Joseph C. Makarewicz, Theodore Lewis1 and Paul Bertram. July 1995.

E Great Lakes Aquatic Nonindigenous Species List.

Ds Dm Dh De Do - Dominant algae species of each Lake - Per Results From The Great Lakes National Program Office's Biological Open Water Surveillance Program Of The Laurentian Great Lakes for 1998. EPA.

H Brown and Manny. 1983. Nearshore Plankton of Hammond Bay, Lake Huron. JGLR 9(4)523-529.

Additional taxonomic placements based on: Prescott. 1970. how to know the Freshwater Algae. Wm. C. Brown Co. [Ankyra, Chlorogonium, Lobomonas, Phacotus, Pyramidomonas, Sphaerellocystis, Bitrichia, Chromulina, Chrysarachnion, Chrysochromulina, Chrysococcus, Epipyxis, Kephyrion, Monosiga, Ochromonas, Pseudokephyrion, Salpingoeca, Stichogloea, Uroglena, Chilomonas, Rhodomonas, Amphidinium, Enteromorpha, Nitellopsis]

Additional taxonomic placements based on: Protist Information Server. [Chlamydocapsa, Monoraphidium, Planktonema, Selenastrum, Sphaerellopsis]

Additional taxonomic placements based on: European Register of Marine Species [Hymenomonas]

Additional taxonomic placements based on: Systema Naturae 2000 [Paraphysomonas, Spiniferomonas]

Additional taxonomic placements based on: VCR LTER Biodiversity Database [Coccochloris]

?Additional Taxonomy, uncertain.[Chodatellopsis, Diplochloris, Echinocoleum, Gloedactinium, Chrysolykos, Isthmochloron, Sphacelariales]