,
AlgaeBase and
Fossilworks accepted three genera: • †
Amblyochara Grambast – 6 species • †
Feistiella Schudack – 8 species •
Nitellopsis Hy – 24 species With this
circumscription, the family as a whole is not extinct, since
Nitellopsis contains living (extant) species, including the widely dispersed
Nitellopsis obtusa. Other sources place
Nitellopsis in the family
Characeae, leaving Feistiellaceae with only extinct genera. ==References==