Family Dinophysiaceae

Family Dinophysiaceae

Citation: Dinophysiaceae Stein 1883. Diagnosis:Dinophysialeans in which the motile cell is rounded, ovoidal or reniform and never more than three times as long as it is broad. The ventral pore is on the ventral episome. The flagellar pore is immediately posterior to the cingulum. Type genus: Dinophysis Ehrenberg 1839b. Extant genera: Citharistes Stein 1883. Dinofurcula Kofoid and Skogsberg 1928. Dinophysis Ehrenberg 1839b. (=Dinoceras Schiller 1931; taxonomic junior synonym - see Fensome et al., 1993b, p.155) (=Heteroceras Forti 1901; taxonomic junior synonym according to Schiller 1931, p.160) (=Phalacroma Stein 1883; taxonomic junior synonym - see Fensome et al., 1993b, p.156) (=Prodinophysis Balech 1944; nomenclatural junior synonym of Phalacroma, having same type) Heteroschisma Kofoid and Skogsberg 1928 ex Schiller 1931. (=Latifascia Loeblich Jr. and Loeblich III 1966; nomenclatural junior synonym, having same type) (=Proheteroschisma Tai Lisun and Skogsberg 1934; taxonomic junior synonym according to Sournia, 1986, p.41) Histioneis Stein 1883. (=Parahistioneis Kofoid and Skogsberg 1928; taxonomic junior synonym according to Sournia, 1986, p.41) Histiophysis Kofoid and Skogsberg 1928. Metadinophysis Nie Dashu and Wang Chiachi 1941. Metaphalacroma Tai Lisun and Skogsberg 1934. Ornithocercus Stein 1883. (=Parelion Schmidt 1889; taxonomic junior synonym - see Fensome et al., 1993b, p.155) Pseudophalacroma Jörgensen 1923 ex Lebour 1925. Sinophysis Nie Dashu and Wang Chiachi 1944. ?Thaumatodinium Böhm 1933. Fossil genera: ?Palaeodinophysis Vozzhennikova and Sheshegova 1989; Devonian (Eifelian). ?Ternia Helby and Stover 1987a; Jurassic (Bathonian-Callovian).

Order Dinophysiales part