Noctilucales

Noctilucales
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: SAR
Clade: Alveolata
Phylum: Myzozoa
Superclass: Dinoflagellata
Class: Noctilucophyceae
Fensome et al.
Order: Noctilucales
Haeckel, 1894
Families

Kofodiniaceae
Leptodiscaceae
Noctilucaceae
Protodiniferaceae

The Noctilucales are an order of marine dinoflagellates. They differ from most others in that the mature cell is diploid and its nucleus does not show a dinokaryotic organization. They show gametic meiosis.