Family Leptodiscaceae

Family Leptodiscaceae

Citation: Leptodiscaceae ERROR bib1881.htm for Taylor, 1976a. 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. Type genus: Leptodiscus ERROR bib887.htm for Hertwig, 1877. Extant genera: Abedinium ERROR bib1214.htm for Loeblich Jr. and Loeblich III, 1966. (=Leptophyllus ERROR bib220.htm for J. Cachon and Cachon-Enjumet, 1964a; homonym - Abedinium is substitute) Cachonodinium ERROR bib1204.htm for Loeblich III, 1980. (=Leptodinium ERROR bib214.htm for J. Cachon and M. Cachon, 1969b [not ERROR bib1076.htm for Klement, 1960]; homonym - Cachonodinium is substitute) Craspedotella ERROR bib1083.htm for Kofoid, 1905. Cymbodinium ERROR bib209.htm for J. Cachon and M. Cachon, 1967a. Leptodiscus ERROR bib887.htm for Hertwig, 1877. (=Clipeodinium ERROR bib1480.htm for Pascher, 1917; taxonomic junior synonym according to ERROR bib1798.htm for Sournia, 1986, p.53) (=Pratjetella ERROR bib1229.htm for Lohmann, 1920; nomenclatural junior synonym, having same type) Petalodinium ERROR bib214.htm for J. Cachon and M. Cachon, 1969b. Scaphodinium ERROR bib1267.htm for Margalef, 1963. (=Leptospathium ERROR bib220.htm for J. Cachon and Cachon-Enjumet, 1964a; taxonomic junior synonym according to ERROR bib214.htm for J. Cachon and M. Cachon, 1969b, p.14-15)

Parent: Order Noctilucales part