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

Peridiniales Haeckel, 1894

Rank: Order
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Order group names

*Peridiniida*		synonym

Children

Archaesphaerodiniopsidaceae
Centrodiniaceae
Ceratocorythaceae Lindemann, 1928
Ceratoperidiniaceae
Crypthecodiniaceae Biecheler ex Chatton, 1952
Dinosphaeraceae Lindemann, 1928
Glenodiniaceae
Glenodiniopsidaceae Schiller, 1935
Heterocapsaceae R.A. Fensome, F.J.R. Taylor, G. Norris, W.A.S. Sarjeant, D.I. Wharton & G.L. Williams
Kolkwitziellaceae
Kryptoperidiniaceae Er.Lindemann, 1925
Lessardiaceae Carbonell-Moore, 2004
Oxytoxaceae Lindemann, 1928
Peridiniaceae Ehrenberg, 1831
Peridiniales incertae sedis
Peridiniida incertae sedis
Peridiniopsidaceae Gottschling, Kretschmann & Zerdoner Casalan, 2017
Podolampaceae
Podolampadaceae Lindemann, 1928
Protoperidiniaceae J.P. Bujak & E.H. Davies, 1983
Thecadiniaceae

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ペリディニウム目

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	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.

Genbank

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). Peridiniales. 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:109394