Family Oxytoxaceae

Family Oxytoxaceae

Citation: Oxytoxaceae Lindemann 1928. Diagnosis:Extant peridiniphycideans in which the tabulation accords with, or is derived from, the following pattern: five or six precingular plates, five postcingular plates, five climactal plates and one antapical plate ( fundital plate). The first postcingular plate contacts the last postcingular plate. Type genus: Oxytoxum Stein 1883. Extant genus: Oxytoxum Stein 1883. (=Corythodinium Loeblich Jr. and Loeblich III 1966; taxonomic junior synonym according to Dodge and Saunders, 1985b, p.101) (=Murrayella Kofoid 1907a; homonym - Pavillardinium is substitute) (=Pavillardinium de Toni 1936; taxonomic junior synonym of Corythodinium according to Taylor, 1976a, p.122) (=Pyrgidium Stein 1883; homonym - Corythodinium is substitute)

Subclass Peridiniphycidae Order uncertain