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)