Class Dinophyceae Pascher (1914)
   Order Noctilucales Haeckel (1894)
     Family Protodiniferaceae Kof. & Swezy (1921)
       Genus Pronoctiluca Fabre-Dom. (1889)
         1 Pronoctiluca pelagica Fabre-Domergue (1889)
         2 Pronoctiluca rostrata F.J.R. Taylor
         3 Pronoctiluca spinifera (Lohmann) Schiller