Chroomonas baltica is a species of cryptophyte first described by Julius Büttner in 1910, as Cyanomonas baltica.[1] It would be reclassified to its current genus by Nellie Carter in 1937.[2]
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| Species: | Chroomonas baltica Carter, 1937
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Büttner observed C. baltica off the coast of Strande in 1910, naming it Cyanomonas baltica, from the blue color of the chromatophore and the sea it was discovered.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b Büttner, J. (1910). Die farbigen Flagellaten des Kieler Hafens. Wissenschaftliche Meeresuntersuchungen, Abteilung Kiel 12: 119-133.
- ^ N. Carter (1937). "New or interesting algae from brackish water". Arch. Protistenkd. 90: 1–68.
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