Suborder Discineae (diatom)
Parent taxon: Centrales according to G. Andrews 1976
Sister taxa: Auliscineae, Basilicostephanus, Chaetoceraceae, Cladogramma, Eupodiscaceae, Eupodiscineae, Hemiauliineae, Lithodemiaceae, Rutilaria, Sheshukovia, Strelnikovia, Triceratiineae
Subtaxa: Actinodiscaceae
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Discineae in the database