Family Gymnodiniaceae

Family Gymnodiniaceae

Citation: Gymnodiniaceae ( Bergh 1881a) Lankester 1885. Diagnosis:Gymnodiniineans in which the cell possesses a single nucleus and lacks an ocellus. Type genus: Gymnodinium Stein 1878. Extant genera: Amphidinium Claparède and Lachmann 1859. (=Trochodinium Conrad 1926; taxonomic junior synonym according to Schiller, 1932, p.311) Bernardinium Chodat in Chodat and Zender 1923. Cochlodinium Schütt 1896. (=Schillingia Schiller, 1932 ex Farr et al. 1979; taxonomic junior synonym according to Sournia, 1986, p.58) Filodinium J. Cachon and M. Cachon 1968a. Gymnodinium Stein 1878. (=Aureodinium Dodge 1967; taxonomic junior synonym according to Sournia, 1986, p.55) (=Ceratodinium Conrad 1926; taxonomic junior synonym according to Schiller, 1932, p.382) (=Melodinium Saville-Kent 1881; taxonomic junior synonym according to Kofoid and Swezy, 1921, p.264) Gyrodinium Kofoid and Swezy, 1921. (=Plectodinium Biecheler 1934b; taxonomic junior synonym according to Sournia, 1986, p.57) (=Spirodinium Schütt 1896; see Fensome et al., 1993b, p.46) ?Herdmania Dodge 1981. Katodinium Fott 1957. (=Massartia Conrad 1926; homonym - Katodinium is substitute) Lepidodinium Watanabe et al. 1990. Paulsenella Chatton 1920. Pavillardia Kofoid and Swezy in Kofoid 1920. Pheopolykrikos Chatton 1933. Schizochytriodinium Elbrächter 1988a. Syltodinium Drebes 1988. Torodinium Kofoid and Swezy, 1921. Woloszynskia Thompson 1951. Fossil genus: ?Aligidasphaeridium Matsuoka and Bujak 1988; Late Miocene. Other name: (Pseudoactiniscus Bursa 1969; name not validly published - gymnodiniacean according to Sournia, 1986, p.98)

Suborder Gymnodiniineae