Overview
Peridiniales is an order of , which is a class of of the kingdom Protista. The phylum that this class comes from is Pyrrophyta or more commonly called, Dinoflagellates. Below is the list of the families in Peridinales.
To see a picture of a Peridiniale, go to [1]
Amphilothaceae, Archaeosphaerodiniopsidaceae, Blastodiniaceae, Calciodinellaceae, Ceratiaceae, Cladopyxidaceae, Coccidinaceae, Crypthecodiniaceae, Dinosphaeraceae, Endodiniaceae, Glenodiniaceae, Glenodiniopsidaceae, Gonyaulacaceae, Haplozoonaceae, Heterodiniaceae, Kolkwitziellaceae, Oodiniaceae, Oxytoxaceae, Paradiniaceae, Peridiniaceae, Podolampaceae, Podolampadaceae, Polykrikaceae, Pronoctilucaceae, Protoceratiaceae, Protoperidinaceae, Protoperidiniaceae, Ptychochscaceae, Pyrophacaceae, Syndiniaceae, Thecadiniaceae, Triadiniaceae
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Taxonomy
The Order Peridiniales is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Suborder (2): Heterocapsineae · Peridiniineae
- Family (14): Archaeosphaerodiniopsidaceae · Ceratoperidiniaceae · Dinosphaeraceae · Glenodiniaceae · Heteraulacaceae · Heterocapsaceae · Lophodiniaceae · Ostreopsidaceae · Oxytoxaceae · Peridiniaceae · Podolampaceae · Protoperidiniaceae · Pyrophacaceae · Thecadiniaceae
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 715 species and subspecies in the Order Peridiniales.
Families
Archaeosphaerodiniopsidaceae
Ceratoperidiniaceae
Dinosphaeraceae
Glenodiniaceae
Heteraulacaceae
Heterocapsaceae
Lophodiniaceae
Ostreopsidaceae
Oxytoxaceae
Peridiniaceae
Podolampaceae
Protoperidiniaceae
Pyrophacaceae
Thecadiniaceae
At least 30 species and subspecies belong to the Family Thecadiniaceae.
More info about the Family Thecadiniaceae may be found here.
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