Prymnesium


Prymnesium is a genus of haptophytes, including the species Prymnesium parvum.
The genus is a unicellular motile alga. It is ellipsoidal in shape one flagellum is straight and there are two longer ones which enable movement.
The name Latinizes the Greek prymnēsion ‘cable , from prymna ‘stern’, from prymnos ‘hindmost’.