Helicosporidium

Helicosporidium
Scientific classification
(unranked): Viridiplantae
Division: Chlorophyta
Class: Trebouxiophyceae
Order: Chlorellales
Family: Chlorellaceae
Genus: Helicosporidium
Keilin, 1921
Species
  • Helicosporidium sp. ex Simulium jonesii
  • Helicosporidium sp. ex Cyrtobagous salviniae

Helicosporidium is a genus of colorless, pathogenic algae in the class Trebouxiophyceae of the green algae. It is a parasite found in the gut of insects, and a close relative of Prototheca.



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