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FAMILY
Cachonellaceae

Citation: Cachonellaceae Silva 1980b.

Diagnosis: Blastodinialeans in which there are two or more successive, independent vegetative cyst stages. The parasitic stage is attached and only initially, if at all, does it resemble a typical dinoflagellate. Sporogenesis is by palintomy.

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DINOFLAJ (c) 1998