Family Pleurochrysidaceae Fresnel and Billard 1991 (haptophyte alga)
Coccolithophyceae - Coccolithales - Pleurochrysidaceae
Full reference: J. Fresnel and C. Billard. 1991. Pleurochrysis placolithoides sp. nov. (Prymnesiophyceae), a new marine coccolithophorid with remarks on the status of cricolith-bearing species. British Phycological Journal 26:67-80
Parent taxon: Coccolithales according to J. R. Young and P. R. Bown 1997
Sister taxa: Coccolithacea, Coccolithaceae, Hymenomonadaceae, Peritrachelina, Caliptrosphaerites, Cylindrosphaera, Pemma, Clathrolithus, Rhabdosphaerites
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Pleurochrysidaceae in the database