Pyramimonadales are an order of green algae in the Chlorophyta, the only order in the class Pyramimonadophyceae. The chloroplasts of phototrophic euglenids probably came from endosymbiosis with a member of this order.

Taxonomy

Family Polyblepharidaceae Dangeard 1888

• Genus Amphoraemonas Szabados 1948

• Genus Chloraster Ehrenberg 1848 non Haworth 1824

• Genus Gyromitus Skuja 1939

• Genus Korschikoffia Pascher 1927

• Genus Polyblepharides Dangeard 1888

• Genus Printziella Skvortzov 1958

• Genus Stephanoptera Dangeard 1910

• Genus Sycamina van Tieghem 1880

Family Pterospermataceae Lohmann 1904

• Genus Polyasterias Meunier 1910

• Genus Pterosperma Pouchet 1893

Family Pyramimonadaceae Korshikov 1938 [Halosphaeraceae Haeckel 1894]

• Genus Angulomonas Skvortzov 1968

• Genus Coccopterum Silva 1970

• Genus Cymbomonas Schiller 1913

• Genus Halosphaera Schmitz 1879

• Genus Kuzminia Skvortzov 1958

• Genus Pocillomonas Steinecke 1926

• Genus Prasinochloris Belcher 1966

• Genus Protoaceromonas Skvortzov 1968

• Genus Protochroomonas Skvortzov 1968

• Genus Pyramimonas Schmarda 1849

• Genus Tasmanites E.T.Newton

• Genus Trichloridella Silva 1970

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