title: Cryptochrysis
text: # Cryptochrysis
  
  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 and Rhinomonas since 1988.
  
  ## Species
  
  * Cryptochrysis amoeboidea Pascher 1917
  * Cryptochrysis atlantica Lackey 1940
  * Cryptochrysis carinata Czosnowski 1948
  * Cryptochrysis commutata Pascher 1911
  * Cryptochrysis fulva
  * Cryptochrysis gigas Pascher 1917
  * Cryptochrysis 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
  