Family Leptodiscaceae

Family Leptodiscaceae

Citation: Leptodiscaceae Taylor 1976a. 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. Type genus: Leptodiscus Hertwig 1877. Extant genera: 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)

Order Noctilucales part