Aureococcus

Aureococcus anophagefferens is a species of heterokont alga. Its cells have a single chloroplast, nucleus, and mitochondrion and an unusual exocellular polysaccharide-like layer. It causes harmful algal blooms.^[1][2] It is the only species in the genus Aureococcus.

Aureococcus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Clade:	Diaphoretickes
Clade:	Sar
Clade:	Stramenopiles
Phylum:	Gyrista
Subphylum:	Ochrophytina
Class:	Dictyochophyceae
Order:	Pelagomonadales
Family:	Pelagomonadaceae
Genus:	Aureococcus
Species:	A. anophagefferens
Binomial name
Aureococcus anophagefferens Hargraves & Sieburth, 1988