Prasinoderma

{{Short description|Genus of algae}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Prasinoderma

| authority = Hasegawa & Chihara 1996

| image = Prasinoderma coloniale LM.webp

| image_caption = P. coloniale under light microscopy

| parent_authority = B. Marin & Melkonian in Li et al., 2020

| grandparent_authority = B. Marin & Melkonian in Li et al., 2020

| greatgrandparent_authority = B. Marin & Melkonian in Li et al., 2020

| type_species = Prasinoderma coloniale

| type_species_authority = Hasegawa & Chihara 1996

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

• P. coloniale
• P. singularis

| diversity = 2 species

}}

Prasinoderma is a genus of green algae in the phylum Prasinodermophyta.{{Cite journal| author1=Linzhou Li| author2=Sibo Wang| author3=Hongli Wang| author4=Sunil Kumar Sahu| author5=Birger Marin| author6=Haoyuan Li| author7=Yan Xu| author8=Hongping Liang| author9=Zhen Li| author10=Shifeng Chen| author11=Tanja Reder| author12=Zehra Çebi| author13=Sebastian Wittek| author14=Morten Petersen| author15=Barbara Melkonian| author16=Hongli Du| author17=Huanming Yang| author18=Jian Wang| author19=Gane Ka-Shu Wong| author20=Xun Xu| author21=Xin Liu| author22=Yves Van de Peer| author23=Michael Melkonian| author24=Huan Liu |date=22 June 2020 |title=The genome of Prasinoderma coloniale unveils the existence of a third phylum within green plants | journal=Nature Ecology & Evolution |volume=4 |issue=9 |pages=1220–1231 |doi=10.1038/s41559-020-1221-7 | doi-access=free| hdl=1854/LU-8667102| hdl-access=free}} Both species in the genus are unicellular, but P. coloniale forms loose sticky colonies.{{cite journal | url = https://daniel-vaulot.fr/files/papers/Jouenne_et%20al_2011.pdf|title=Prasinoderma singularis sp. nov. (Prasinophyceae, Chlorophyta), a Solitary Coccoid Prasinophyte from the South-East Pacific Ocean |first1 = Fabien |last1 = Jouenne|first2 = Wenche |last2 = Eikrem | first3 = Florence | last3 = Le Gall | first4 = Dominique | last4 = Marie | first5 = Geir | last5 = Johnsend | first6 = Daniel | last6 = Vaulot | journal = Protist | volume = 162 | pages = 70–84 | date = January 2011 | doi = 10.1016/j.protis.2010.04.005 | issue = 1}}