Difference between revisions of "Family Leptodiscaceae"

Diagnosis:Noctilucaleans in which the dominant life cycle stage comprises a motile cell whose width is extended significantly by anterior- posterior compression or by the presence of an equatorial, wing-like extension. Neither a tentacle nor an episomal extracellular dome, are developed.

Leptodiscus Hertwig 1877.

Abedinium Loeblich Jr. and Loeblich III 1966.


(=Leptophyllus J. Cachon and Cachon-Enjumet 1964a; homonym - Abedinium is substitute)



Cachonodinium Loeblich III 1980.


(=Leptodinium J. Cachon and M. Cachon 1969b [not Klement 1960]; homonym - Cachonodinium is substitute)



Craspedotella Kofoid 1905.
Cymbodinium J. Cachon and M. Cachon 1967a.
Leptodiscus Hertwig 1877.


(=Clipeodinium Pascher 1917; taxonomic junior synonym according to Sournia, 1986, p.53)


(=Pratjetella Lohmann 1920; nomenclatural junior synonym, having same type)



Petalodinium J. Cachon and M. Cachon 1969b.
Scaphodinium Margalef 1963.


(=Leptospathium J. Cachon and Cachon-Enjumet 1964a; taxonomic junior synonym according to J. Cachon and M. Cachon 1969b, p.14-15)