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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Phylum: | Cryptista |
| Superclass: | Cryptomonada |
| Class: | Cryptophyceae |
| Order: | Pyrenomonadales |
| Family: | Falcomonadaceae |
| Genus: | Falcomonas Hill 19911 |
| Type species | |
| Falcomonas daucoides (Conrad & Kufferath 1954) Hill 1991
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Falcomonas is a genus of cryptophytes placed in the family Chroomonadaceae.2 It is a common organism in marine waters.3
References
References
- Hill, David R. A. (1991). "Chroomonas and Other Blue-Green Cryptomonads". Journal of Phycology. 27 (1): 141. doi:10.1111/j.0022-3646.1991.00133.x. S2CID 84657275.
- Brec L. Clay & Paul Kugrens (1999). "Characterization of Hemiselmis amylosa sp. nov. and phylogenetic placement of the blue-green cryptomonads H. amylosa and Falcomonas daucoides". Protist. 150 (3): 297–310. doi:10.1016/S1434-4610(99)70031-3. PMID 10575702.
- Kugrens, Paul; Lee, Robert E.; Hill, David R. A. (2000). Order Cryptomonadida (PDF) (2nd ed.). J. J. Lee, G. F. Leedale & P. Bradbury (ed.), An Illustrated Guide to the Protozoa.