[ref. ID; 3731 (Alfred R. Loeblich, III, 1976)]
Classification of Mastigophora
Class DINOPHYCEAE
Order BLASTODINIALES
- Family Haplozoaceae: Genus Haplozoon
Order CHYTRIODINIALES
- Family Chytriodiniaceae: Genus Chytriodinium, Myxodinium
Order DESMOCAPSALES
Order DINAMOEBALES
Order DINOPHYSIALES
Order DINOTRICHALES
Order GLOEODINIALES
Order GYMNODINIALES
- Family Actiniscaceae
- Family Gymnodiniaceae: Genus Amphidinium, Gymnodinium, Gyrodinium, Katodinium, Oxyrrhis, Plectodinium
Order NOCTILUCALES
- Family Noctilucaceae: Genus Leptodiscus, Noctiluca
Order PERIDINALES
- Family Archaeosphaerodiniopsidaceae
- Family Centrodiniaceae
- Family Ceratiaceae: Genus Ceratium
- Family Ceratocoryaceae
- Family Cladopyxidaceae
- Family Crypthecodiniaceae: Genus Crypthecodinium
- Family Dinosphaeraceae
- Family Glenodiniopsidaceae
- Family Gonyaulacaceae: Genus Gonyaulax
- Family Heteraulacaceae
- Family Lophodiniaceae: Genus Woloszynskia
- Family Osteropsidaceae
- Family Oxytoxaceae
- Family Peridiniaceae: Genus Cachonina, Peridinium, Scippsiella, Sphaerodinium
- Family Podolampaceae
- Family Pyrophacaceae: Genus Helgolandinium
- Family Thecadiniaceae
Order PHYTODINIALES
Order PROROCENTRALES
- Family Prorocentraceae: Genus Prorocentrum
Order PROTASPIDALES
Order PYROCYSTALES
Order ZOOXANTHELLALES
- Family Zooxanthellaceae: Genus Endodinium
Class EBRIOPHYCEAE
Class ELLOBIOPHYCEAE
Class SYNDINIOPHYCEAE class nov. (ref. ID; 3731 original paper)
Diagnosis (in Latin)
Dinoflagellata quae up parasitici intracellulares in invertebratis marinis vivunt, et quae unicum nucleum 4-10 chromasomata forma litterae "V" continentem habunt. Apex horum chromosomatum membranae nucleari adhaeret. Chromosomata proteios basicos, qui modo histochemico detegi possunt, continent. Mitosis implicat centriolos necnon unum canalem microtubulos continentes, qui nucleum transfigit. Cellulae mobiles nonthecatae biflagellataeque.
Typus
Syndiniales ord. nov.
Comments
I propose the new class Syndiniophyceae, which is distinguished from the Dinophyceae in the following features: (a) low chromosome numbers (4-10); (b) V-shaped chromosomes; (c) chromosomes containing a sufficient quantity of histochemically detectable basic proteins; (d) possession of centrioles associated with mitosis; (e) intracellular parasitism as a mode of nutrition; and (f) lack of cell cover containing thecal plates. Syndiniales is proposed as a replacement for the order Coccidiniales Chatton & Biecheler, 1934, since there is some doubt as to whether Coccidinium exists. Loeblich & Loeblich (1973) noted that one of the figures attributed to Coccidinium is in reality the symbiote or eukaryotic nucleus to Peridinium balticum. The identity of the organisms represented in the other figures is unclear. (ref. ID; 3731)
Order SYNDINIALES
- Family Amoebophryaceae
- Family Coccidiniaceae: Genus Coccidinium
- Family Duboscquellaceae: Genus Duboscquella, Keppenodinium
- Family Sphaeriparaceae: Genus Atlanticellodinium, Sphaeripara
- Family Syndiniaceae Chatton, 1920: Genus Merodinium, Solenodinium, Syndinium, Synhemidinium