pusilla) 1.5 µm Flagellum Three more species recently described M. commoda M. bravo M. polaris Butcher, R.W. 1952. J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. U.K. 31:175–91. Simon, N., Foulon, E., Grulois, D., Six, C., Desdevises, Y., Latimier, M., Le Gall, F. et al. 2017. Protist. 168:612–35. 10 / 18
pusilla) 1.5 µm Flagellum Three more species recently described M. commoda M. bravo M. polaris Two "candidate" species sp. 1 sp. 2 Butcher, R.W. 1952. J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. U.K. 31:175–91. Simon, N., Foulon, E., Grulois, D., Six, C., Desdevises, Y., Latimier, M., Le Gall, F. et al. 2017. Protist. 168:612–35. 10 / 18
1990 by W. Eikrem 1.5 µm Covered by spider web scales One species: Bathycoccus prasinos Johnson, P.W. & Sieburth, J.M. 1982. J. Phycol. 18:318–27. Eikrem, W. & Throndsen, J. 1990. Phycologia. 29:344–50. 11 / 18
photosynthetic eukaryote (0.8 µm) Genome deciphered in 2006 Now a biological model Three described species and one un-named clade O. tauri O. mediterraneus O. "lucimarinus" clade B Chrétiennot-Dinet, M.-J., Courties, C., Vaquer, A., Neveux, J., Claustre, H., Lautier, J. & Machado, M.C. 1995. Phycologia. 34:285–92. 12 / 18