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).

Parent: Order Dinophysiales part