Pirsonia

Pirsonia
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: Sar
Clade: Stramenopiles
Class: Pirsonea
Cavalier-Smith 2017
Order: Pirsoniida
Cavalier-Smith & Chao 2006
Family: Pirsoniaceae
Cavalier-Smith 1998
Genus: Pirsonia
Schnepf, Debres & Elbrachter 1990
Species
  • P. diadema
  • P. eucampiae
  • P. formosa
  • P. guinardie
  • P. mucosa
  • P. punctigerae
  • P. verrucosa

Pirsonia is a non photosynthetic genus of heterokonts. It comprises the entirety of the family Pirsoniaceae, order Pirsoniida and class Pirsonea in the subphylum Bigyromonada, phylum Gyrista.