Pelagomonas

Pelagomonas
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Sar
Clade: Stramenopiles
Division: Ochrophyta
Class: Dictyochophyceae
Order: Pelagomonadales
Family: Pelagomonadaceae
Genus: Pelagomonas
R.A.Andersen & G.W.Saunders
Species:
P. calceolata
Binomial name
Pelagomonas calceolata
R.A.Andersen & G.W.Saunders

Pelagomonas is a genus of heterokont algae. It is a monotypic genus and includes a single species, Pelagomonas calceolata which is a unicellular flagellate organism, a ubiquitous constituent of marine picoplankton. It is an ultra-planktonic marine alga.