High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Bolidomonas is a genus of unicellular picoplanktonic heterokonts. It was recently (1999) discovered. Genetically it is close to diatoms, but differs morphologically from them. Bolidomonas cells have two flagella, chloroplasts with girdle lamella, and no eyespot. Photosynthetic pigments present in bolydophyte choroplasts include chlorophylls a, c1, c2, c3, fucoxanthin, diatoxanthin, diadinoxanthin.