Family Gymnodiniaceae

Family Gymnodiniaceae

Citation: Gymnodiniaceae ( Bergh, 1881a) Lankester, 1885. Diagnosis:Gymnodiniineans in which the cell possesses a single nucleus and lacks an ocellus. Type genus: Gymnodinium Stein, 1878. Extant genera: Amphidinium Claparède and Lachmann, 1859. (=Trochodinium Conrad, 1926; taxonomic junior synonym according to Schiller, 1932, p.311) Bernardinium Chodat in Chodat and Zender, 1923. Cochlodinium Schütt, 1896. (=Schillingia Schiller, 1932 ex Farr et al., 1979; taxonomic junior synonym according to Sournia, 1986, p.58) Filodinium J. Cachon and M. Cachon, 1968a. Gymnodinium Stein, 1878. (=Aureodinium Dodge, 1967; taxonomic junior synonym according to Sournia, 1986, p.55) (=Ceratodinium Conrad, 1926; taxonomic junior synonym according to Schiller, 1932, p.382) (=Melodinium Saville-Kent, 1881; taxonomic junior synonym according to Kofoid and Swezy, 1921, p.264) Gyrodinium Kofoid and Swezy, 1921. (=Plectodinium Biecheler, 1934b; taxonomic junior synonym according to Sournia, 1986, p.57) (=Spirodinium Schütt, 1896; see Fensome et al., 1993b, p.46) ?Herdmania Dodge, 1981. Katodinium Fott, 1957. (=Massartia Conrad, 1926; homonym - Katodinium is substitute) Lepidodinium Watanabe et al., 1990. Paulsenella Chatton, 1920. Pavillardia Kofoid and Swezy in Kofoid, 1920. Pheopolykrikos Chatton, 1933. Schizochytriodinium Elbrächter, 1988a. Syltodinium Drebes, 1988. Torodinium Kofoid and Swezy, 1921. Woloszynskia Thompson, 1951. Fossil genus: ?Aligidasphaeridium Matsuoka and Bujak, 1988; Late Miocene. Other name: (Pseudoactiniscus Bursa, 1969; name not validly published - gymnodiniacean according to Sournia, 1986, p.98)

Parent: Suborder Gymnodiniineae