Difference between revisions of "Family Actiniscaceae"

Diagnosis:Actiniscineans in which the motile cell has a rigid, siliceous, internal stellate skeleton of two parts which, together with a perinuclear strengthening layer, encloses the nucleus.

Actiniscus ( Ehrenberg 1840a) Ehrenberg 1843a; fossil - Pliocene.

Diaster Meunier 1910.

Actiniscus ( Ehrenberg 1840a) Ehrenberg 1843a; Pliocene.


(=Gymnaster Schütt 1891; taxonomic junior synonym by general consideration)


(=Lutetianella Filipescu 1943 ex Filipescu 1959; taxonomic junior synonym according to Dumitrică, 1973, p.820)


(=Microdistephanus Filipescu 1943 ex Filipescu 1959; taxonomic junior synonym according to Dumitrică, 1973, p.820)



Carduifolia Hovasse 1932a ex Hovasse 1932b; Tertiary.
Cinctactiniscus Dumitrică, 1973; Late Oligocene-Early Pliocene.
Foliactiniscus Dumitrică, 1973; Tertiary.

(?Calicipedinium Dumitrică, 1973; name not validly published)