Higher Classification: > Kingdom Chromista > Subkingdom Harosa > Infrakingdom Alveolata > Phylum Myzozoa > Subphylum Dinozoa > Infraphylum Dinoflagellata > Class Dinophyceae > Subclass Peridiniphycidae > Order Gonyaulacales > Family Pyrocystaceae

Pyrocystis J.Murray ex Haeckel, 1890

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Dissodinium*	Klebs, 1916	synonym

Children

Dissodinium pseudocalani (Gonnert) Drebes ex Elbrachter & Drebes, 1978
Dissodinium pseudolunula Swift ex Elbrächter & Drebes, 1978
Pyrocystis elegans Pavillard, 1931
Pyrocystis fusiformis C.W.Thomson, 1876
Pyrocystis gerbaultii Pavillard, 1935
Pyrocystis lanceolata Schröder, 1900
Pyrocystis lunata (Schütt) Schütt
Pyrocystis lunula (Schütt) Schütt, 1896
Pyrocystis obtusa Pavillard, 1931
Pyrocystis pseudonoctiluca Wyville-Thompson, 1876
Pyrocystis robusta Kofoid, 1907

Literature

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	Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. searched on YYYY-MM-DD.
additional source	Parker, S.P. (Ed.) (1982). Synopsis and classification of living organisms. McGraw Hill Book Company: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-07-079031-0. 1166, 1232 pp.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

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). Pyrocystis J.Murray ex Haeckel, 1890. 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:109571