{{Short description|Class of single-celled organisms}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Noctiluca scintillans varias.jpg | image_caption = ''Noctiluca scintillans'', dinoflagellate that exhibits bioluminescence | image_alt = Noctiluca scintillans, dinoflagellate that exhibits bioluminescence | display_parents = 2 | taxon = Dinophyceae | authority = Pascher, 1914 | subdivision_ranks = Orders | subdivision = * Actiniscales * Akashiwales * Amphilothales * Apodiniales * Blastodiniales * Brachidiniales * Dinophysiales * Dinotrichales * Gonyaulacales * Gymnodiniales * Haplozoonales * †Nannoceratopsiales * Peridiniales * Phytodiniales * Prorocentrales * Ptychodiscales * Thoracosphaerales }}
'''Dinophyceae''' is a class of dinoflagellates.<ref name="Gómez12">{{cite journal|author=Gómez F |title=A checklist and classification of living dinoflagellates (Dinoflagellata, Alveolata) |journal=CICIMAR Oceánides |volume=27 |issue=1 |pages=65–140 |year=2012 |doi=10.37543/oceanides.v27i1.111 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{citation | date=2015| author = Ruggiero | title = Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms | volume=10 |issue=4 |article-number= e0119248|journal=PLOS ONE | doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0119248 |display-authors=etal | pmid=25923521 | pmc=4418965| doi-access = free }}</ref><ref>{{citation | date=2016| author = Silar, Philippe| title = Protistes Eucaryotes: Origine, Evolution et Biologie des Microbes Eucaryotes| url=https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01263138|pages=1–462 |journal=HAL Archives-ouvertes }}</ref>
==Taxonomy== * Class Dinophyceae <small>Pascher 1914</small> [Peridinea <small>Ehrenberg 1830 stat. nov. Wettstein</small>; Blastodiniphyceae <small>Fensome et al. 1993 orthog. emend.</small>] ** Order Haplozoonales [Haplozooidea Poche 1913] *** Family Haplozoonaceae <small>Chatton 1920</small> ** Order Akashiwales <small>Molinari & Guiry 2023</small> *** Family Akashiwaceae <small>Cavalier-Smith 2017</small> [Akashiwidae <small>Cavalier-Smith 2017</small>] ** Order Blastodiniales <small>Chatton 1906</small> [Blastodinida <small>Chatton 1906</small>] *** Family Blastodiniaceae <small>Cavers 1913</small> ** Order Apodiniales *** Family Apodiniaceae <small>Chatton 1920 </small> ** Order Dinotrichales <small>Pascher 1914</small> *** Family Crypthecodiniaceae <small>Biecheler 1938 ex Chatton 1952</small> *** Family Dinotrichaceae <small>Pascher 1914</small> ** Order Phytodiniales <small>T. Christ. 1962 ex Loeblich 1970</small> [Dinococcales <small>Pascher 1914</small>; Suessiales <small>Fensome & al. 1993</small>; Dinamoebales] *** Family †Suessiaceae <small>Fensome et al. 1993</small> *** Family Phytodiniaceae <small>Klebs 1912</small> [Dinococcaceae <small>Fott 1960</small>; Hemidiniaceae <small>Bourrelly 1970</small>; Borghiellaceae <small>Moestrup, Lindberg & Daugbjerg 2009</small>] *** Family Symbiodiniaceae <small>Fensome & al. 1993</small> [Zooxanthellaceae] ** Order Brachidiniales <small>Loeblich III 1982 ex Sournia 1984</small> *** Family Brachidiniaceae <small>Sournia 1972</small> [Kareniaceae <small>Bergholtz & al. 2006</small>] ** Order Ptychodiscales <small>Fensome & al. 1993</small> *** Family Ptychodiscaceae <small>Lemmermann 1899</small> ** Order Amphilothales <small>Lindemann 1928</small> *** Family Amphitholaceae <small>Poche 1913</small> [Amphilothaceae] ** Order Actiniscales [Actiniscineae <small>(Sournia 1984) Fensome et al. 1993b</small>] *** Family Actiniscaceae <small>Kützing 1844</small> [Gymnasteraceae <small>Lindemann 1928</small>] *** Family Dicroerismaceae <small>Fensome & al. 1993</small> ** Order Gymnodiniales <small>Lemmermann 1910</small> *** ''Cochlodinium'' group *** ''Gyrodinium dorsum'' group *** ''Gyrodinium'' group *** ''Togula'' group *** Family Chytriodiniaceae <small>Cachon & Cachon-Enjumet 1968</small> *** Family Gymnodiniaceae <small>(Bergh 1881a) Lankester 1885</small> [Polykrikaceae <small>Kofoid & Swezy 1921</small>] *** Family Warnowiaceae <small>Lindemann 1928</small> ** Order Prorocentrales <small>Lemmermann 1910 </small> *** Family Haplodiniaceae <small>Lindemann 1928</small> *** Family Prorocentraceae <small>Stein 1883</small> ** Order †Nannoceratopsiales <small>Piel & Evitt 1980</small> *** Family †Nannoceratopsiaceae <small>Gocht 1970</small> ** Order Dinophysiales <small>Lindemann 1928</small> *** Family Amphisoleniaceae <small>Lindemann 1928</small> *** Family Dinophysaceae <small>Stein 1883</small> [Citharistaceae <small>Kofoid & Skogsberg 1928</small>; Ornithocercaceae <small>Kofoid & Skogsberg 1928</small>] *** Family Oxyphysaceae <small>Sournia 1984</small> ** Order Gonyaulacales <small>Taylor 1980</small> [Pyrocystales <small>Apstein 1909</small>] *** Family †Lotharingiaceae *** Family †Mancodiniaceae *** Family †Pareodiniaceae *** Family †Scriniocassiaceae *** ''Amylax'' group *** Family Ceratiaceae <small>Kofoid 1907</small> *** Family Goniodomataceae <small>Lindemann 1928</small> [Ostreopsidaceae <small>Lindemann 1928</small>, Triadiniaceae <small>Dodge 1981</small>; Yeseviidae <small>Özdikmen 2009</small>, Centrodiniaceae <small>Hernández-Becerril et al. 2010</small>] *** Family Gonyaulacaceae <small>Lindemann 192</small> *** Family Protoceratidaceae <small>Lindemann 1928</small> [Ceratocorythaceae <small>Lindemann 1928</small>] *** Family Pyrocystaceae <small>(Schütt 1896) Lemmermann 1899</small> [Pyrophacaceae <small>Lindemann 1928</small>; Helgolandinioideae] *** Family Thecadiniaceae <small>Balech 1956</small> ** Order Thoracosphaerales <small>Tangen 1982</small> [?Lophodiniales <small>Dodge 1984</small>] *** Family Calciodinellaceae [Calciodinelloideae <small>Deflandre 1947</small>] *** Family Glenodiniaceae <small>Wiley & Hickson 1909</small> [Glenodiniopsidaceae <small>Schiller 1935</small>; Dinosphaeraceae <small>Lindemann 1928</small>; Lophodiniaceae <small>Osorio-Tafall 1942</small>; Glenodiniineae <small>Fensome et al. 1993b</small>] *** Family Thoracosphaeraceae <small>Schiller 1930</small> [Oodiniaceae <small>Chatton 1920</small>; Protoodinidae; Protoodiniaceae <small>Cachon 1964</small>; Hemidiniaceae <small>Bourrelly 1970</small>; Cachonellaceae <small>Silva 1980</small>; Stylodiniaceae <small>Pascher ex Sournia 1984</small>; Pfiesteriaceae <small>Steidinger & al. 1996)</small>] ** Order Peridiniales <small>Haeckel 1894 </small> *** Family †Comparodiniaceae <small>Vozzhennikova 1979</small> *** Family †Stephanelytraceae <small>Stover et al. 1977</small> *** Family †Dollidiniaceae <small>Fensome et al. 1993</small> *** ''Amphidoma caudata'' group *** ''Ensiculifera'' group *** Family Amphidiniopsidaceae <small>Dodge 1984</small> *** Family Amphidomataceae <small>Sournia 1984</small> *** Family Cladopyxidaceae <small>Stein 1883</small> [Cladopyxididae <small>Poche 1913</small>] *** Family Diplopsaliaceae <small>Matsuoka 1988</small> [Diplopsaloideae] *** Family Endodiniaceae <small>Schiller 1935</small> *** Family Heterocapsaceae <small>Fensome et al. 1993</small> [Heterocapsineae <small>Fensome et al. 1993</small>] *** Family Heterodiniaceae <small>Lindemann 1928</small> *** Family Oxytoxaceae <small>Lindemann 1928</small> *** Family Peridiniaceae *** Family Podolampadaceae <small>Lindemann 1928</small> [Lessardiaceae <small>Carbonell-Moore 2004</small>] *** Family Protoperidiniaceae <small>Balech 1988</small> [Kolkwitziellaceae <small>Lindemann 1928</small>; Congruentidiaceae <small>Schiller 1935</small>; Protoperidiniaceae <small>Bujak & Davies 1998</small>]
==References== {{Reflist}}
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