Higher Classification: > Kingdom Chromista > Subkingdom Harosa > Infrakingdom Alveolata > Phylum Myzozoa > Subphylum Dinozoa > Infraphylum Dinoflagellata > Class Dinophyceae > Order Dinophysales

Dinophysaceae Bütschli, 1885

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Dinophysiaceae*	Bütschli, 1885	synonym
*Dinophysidae*		synonym

Children

Citharistes Stein, 1883
Dinophysis Ehrenberg, 1839
Histioneis Stein, 1883
Ornithocercus Stein, 1883
Sinophysis Nie & C.Wang, 1944

Literature

original description	Bütschli, O. (1885). II. Abtheilung: Mastigophora. Dr. HG Bronn's Klassen und Ordnungen des Thier-Reichs, wissenschaftlich dargestellt in Wort und Bild. Ester Band Protozoa. Leipzig & Heidelberg: CF Winter'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung. 865-1088.
basis of record	Gómez, F. (2005). A list of free-living dinoflagellate species in the world's oceans. Acta Bot. Croat. 64(1): 129-212.
additional source	Silva, P.C. (1980). Names of classes and families of living algae: with special reference to their use in the Index Nominum Genericorum (Plantarum). Regnum Vegetabile. 103: 1-156.

Genbank

Taxonomy

Published in AlgaeBase

Citation

Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway (taxonomic information republished from AlgaeBase with permission of M.D. Guiry). Dinophysaceae Bütschli, 1885. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:231772