Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Chromista - (Phylum) Miozoa - (Class) Dinophyceae - (Order) Gonyaulacales - (Family) Pyrocystaceae

Original position

Murracyteae (Class) Haeckel (1890)

Ref: E. Haeckel, 1890: 30 (footnote).

Current position

Pyrocystaceae (Family) (F. Schütt) Lemmerm. (1899)

Ref: F. Gómez, 2012: table 2 (p. 139).

Alternative positions

Murracyteae (Class) Haeckel (1890)	Ref: E. Haeckel, 1891: 261 (footnote).
Peridiniphycidae (Subclass) Fensome, F.J.R. Taylor, G. Norris, Sarjeant, Wharton & G.L. Williams (1993)	Ref: S.M. Adl et al., 2005: 433.
Pyrocystidae (Family)	Ref: 2003

Historical positions

Pyrocystaceae (Family) (F. Schütt) Lemmerm. (1899)	Ref: F. Gómez, 2012: table 1 (p. 72), table 2 (p. 139).
Pyrocystaceae (Family) (F. Schütt) Lemmerm. (1899)	Ref: Yu.B. Okolodkov, 2011: 11, 58.
Peridiniphycidae (Subclass) Fensome, F.J.R. Taylor, G. Norris, Sarjeant, Wharton & G.L. Williams (1993)	Ref: S.M. Adl et al., 2005: 433.
Pyrocystaceae (Family) (F. Schütt) Lemmerm. (1899)	Ref: F. Gómez, 2005: table 1 (p. 211).
Pyrocystaceae (Family) (F. Schütt) Lemmerm. (1899)	Ref: F. Gómez, 2003: table II (p. 231).
Pyrocystaceae (Family) (F. Schütt) Lemmerm. (1899)	Ref: T. Koray, 2001: 6.
Pyrocystaceae (Family) (F. Schütt) Lemmerm. (1899)	Ref: J.D. Dodge & J.J. Lee, 2000: 671.
Pyrocystaceae (Family) (F. Schütt) Lemmerm. (1899)	Ref: R.A. Fensome et al., 1993
Pyrocystaceae (Family) (F. Schütt) Lemmerm. (1899)	Ref: A.R. Loeblich III, 1982: 112.
Murracyteae (Class) Haeckel (1890)	Ref: E. Haeckel, 1891: 261 (footnote).
Murracyteae (Class) Haeckel (1890)	Ref: E. Haeckel, 1890: 30 (footnote). [validated name]

Number of Subtaxa

2024	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	8s
1891	E. Haeckel: 261 (footnote)	[1s]
1890	E. Haeckel: 30 (footnote)	[1s]