Peridinea

Taxonavigation

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Regnum: Protista
Subregnum: Biciliata
Infraregnum: Alveolata
Phylum: Myzozoa
Subphylum: Dinozoa
Infraphylum: Dinoflagellata
Superclassis: Dinokaryota
Classis: Peridinea
Subclasses: Peridinoidia - Dinophysoidia - Gonyaulacoidia - Suessioidia - Oxyrrhia

References

• Thomas Cavalier-Smith and E. E. Chao, Protalveolate phylogeny and systematics and the origins of Sporozoa and dinoflagellates (phylum Myzozoa nom. nov.), Europ. J. Protistol. 40, 185-212 (2004).
• Thomas Cavalier-Smith, Protist phylogeny and the high-level classification of Protozoa, Europ. J. Protistol. 39, 338-348 (2003).

Alternative classifications

John O. Corliss (1984)

From The kingdom Protista and its 45 phyla

In Kingdom Protista, Assemblage "Dinoflagellates"
Phylum Peridinea Ehrenberg, 1830

Cavalier-Smith (1993)

From Kingdom Protozoa and its 18 phyla

In Phylum Dinozoa, Subphylum Dinoflagellata, Superclass Dinokaryota
Class Peridinea Ehrenberg, 1830 stat. nov. Wettstein, 1901 emend.

• Subclass Gymnodinoidia
• Subclass Peridinoidia
• Subclass Prorocentroidia
• Subclass Desmocapsoidia
• Subclass Thoracosphaeroidia