Cryptochrysis is a formerly recognized genus of cryptomonads first proposed by Adolf Pascher in 1911. He initially treated it as the sole genus in family Cryptochrysidaceae, but later treated it as a member of the Cryptochrysideae subfamily of Cryptomonadaceae, along with Rhodomonas, Chroomonas, and Cyanomonas. In 1967, R.W. Butcher relegated the group to a subgenus within Chroomonas.
It is now regarded as paraphyletic, with its species now various reassigned into Pyrenomonas, Rhinomonas and Cryptomonas.
Species Cryptochrysis amoeboidea Pascher 1917 Cryptochrysis atlantica Lackey 1940 Cryptochrysis carinata Czosnowski 1948 Cryptochrysis commutata Pascher 1911 Cryptomonas commutata Chroomonas (Cryptochrysis) fragarioides Rhinomonas fragarioides Cryptochrysis fulva Butcher 1952 Rhinomonas fulva Cryptochrysis gigas Pascher 1917 Cryptochrysis lateralis Butcher 1952 Rhinomonas lateralis Cryptochrysis magna Kufferath 1942 Cryptochrysis minor Nygaard 1950 Cryptochrysis minutissima Cryptochrysis ovalis Petersen & Hansen 1961 Cryptochrysis pochmannii Huber-Pestalozzi 1950 Cryptochrysis polychrysis Pascher 1913 Cryptochrysis rubens Cryptochrysis virescens
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