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List of brown algal genera

This is a list of the orders, families and genera in the class Phaeophyceae — the brown algae.[1]

Discosporangiophycidae

Discosporangiales

Choristocarpaceae

  • Choristocarpus Zanardini 1860

Discosporangiaceae

  • Discosporangiumtite Falkenberg 1878

Ishigeophycidae

  • Diplura Hollenberg 1969[2]

Ishigeales

Ishigeaceae

  • Ishige Yendo 1907

Petrodermataceae

  • Petroderma Kuckuck 1897

Dictypophycidae

Syringodermatales

Syringodermataceae

  • Microzonia Agardh 1984
  • Syringoderma Levring 1940

Onslowiales

Onslowiaceae

  • Onslowia Searles 1980
  • Verosphacella Henry 1987

Dictyotales

Dictyotaceae

  • Canistrocarpus De Paula & De Clerck 2006
  • Chlanidophora Agardh 1894 non Berg 1877
  • Dictyopteris Lamouroux 1809a nom. cons.
  • Dictyota Lamouroux 1809b nom. cons. [Dilophus Agardh 1882; Glossophora Agardh 1882; Glossophorella Nizamuddin & Campbell 1995; Pachydictyon Agardh 1894]
  • Dictyopsis Troll 1931
  • Distromium Levring 1940
  • Exallosorus Phillips 1997
  • Herringtonia Kraft 2009
  • Homoeostrichus Agardh 1894
  • Lobophora Agardh 1894 [Pocockiella Papenfuss 1943]
  • Lobospira Areschoug 1854
  • Newhousia Kraft et al. 2004
  • Padina Adanson 1793 nom. cons. [Dictyerpa Collins & Harvey 1901; Vaughaniella Borgesen 1950]
  • Padinopsis Ercegovic 1955
  • Rugulopteryx De Cerck & Coppejans 2006
  • Scoresbyella Womersley 1987
  • Spatoglossum Kutzing 1843
  • Stoechospermum Kutzing 1843
  • Stypopodium Kutzing 1843
  • Taonia Agardh 1848
  • Zonaria Agardh 1817

Sphacelariales

Lithodermataceae

  • Bodanella Zimmermann 1927
  • Heribaudiella Gomont 1896
  • Lithoderma Areschoug 1875
  • Pseudolithoderma Svedelius 1910

Phaeostrophionaceae

  • Phaeostrophion Setchell & Gardner 1924

Sphacelodermaceae

  • Sphaceloderma Kuckuck 1894

Stypocaulaceae

  • Alethocladus
  • Halopteris Kutzing 1843 [Stypocaulon Kutzing 1843]
  • Phloiocaulon Geyler 1866
  • Protohalopteris Draisma, Prud'homme & Kawai 2010
  • Ptilopogon Reinke 1890

Cladostephaceae

  • Cladostephus Agardh 1817

Sphacelariaceae

  • Battersia Reinke ex Batters 1890 emend. Draisma, Prud'homme & Kawai 2010
  • Chaetopteris Kutzing 1843
  • Herpodiscus South 1974 emend. Draisma, Prud'homme & Kawai 2010
  • Sphacelaria Lyngbye 1818
  • Sphacella Reinke 1890
  • Sphacelorbus Draisma, Prud'homme & Kawai 2010

Fucophycidae

Asterocladales

Asterocladaceae

  • Asterocladon Müller, Parodi & Peters 1998

Ascoseirales

Ascoseiraceae

  • Ascoseira Skottsberg 1907

Cutleriales

Cutleriaceae

  • Cutleria
  • Zanardinia

Desmarestiales

Arthrocladiaceae

  • Arthrocladia

Desmarestiaceae

  • Desmarestia
  • Himantothallus
  • Phaeurus

Ectocarpales

Acinetosporaceae

  • Acinetospora
  • Feldmannia
  • Geminocarpus
  • Hincksia
  • Pogotrichum
  • Pylaiella

Adenocystaceae

  • Adenocystis
  • Caepidium
  • Utriculidium

Chordariaceae

  • Acrothrix
  • Ascoseirophila
  • Asperococcus
  • Austrofilum
  • Chordaria
  • Cladosiphon
  • Corycus
  • Delamarea
  • Dictyosiphon
  • Elachista
  • Eudesme
  • Giraudia
  • Gononema
  • Halothrix
  • Haplogloia
  • Hecatonema
  • Heterosaundersella
  • Hummia
  • Isthmoplea
  • Laminariocolax
  • Laminarionema
  • Leathesia
  • Leptonematella
  • Litosiphon
  • Microspongium
  • Mikrosyphar
  • Myelophycus
  • Myriogloea
  • Myrionema
  • Myriotrichia
  • Papenfussiella
  • Petrospongium
  • Pleurocladia
  • Polytretus
  • Proselachista
  • Protectocarpus
  • Punctaria
  • Sauvageaugloia
  • Soranthera
  • Sorocarpus
  • Spermatochnus
  • Sphaerotrichia
  • Stictyosiphon
  • Streblonema
  • Striaria
  • Stschapovia
  • Tinocladia

Chordariopsidaceae

  • Chordariopsis

Ectocarpaceae

  • Ectocarpus
  • Kuckuckia

Mesosporaceae

  • Mesospora

Myrionemataceae

  • Asterotrichia

Pylaiellaceae

  • Bachelotia

Fucales

Bifurcariopsidaceae

  • Bifurcariopsis

Durvillaeaceae

  • Durvillaea

Fucaceae

Himanthaliaceae

  • Himanthalia

Hormosiraceae

  • Hormosira

Notheiaceae

  • Notheia

Sargassaceae

  • Anthophycus
  • Axillariella
  • Bifurcaria
  • Bifurcariopsis
  • Carpoglossum
  • Caulocystis
  • Coccophora
  • Cystophora
  • Cystoseira
  • Halidrys
  • Hizikia
  • Hormophysa
  • Myagropsis
  • Myogropsis
  • Myriodesma
  • Sargassum
  • Turbinaria

Seirococcaceae

  • Cystophaera
  • Marginariella
  • Phyllospora
  • Seirococcus

Laminariales

Akkesiphycaceae

  • Akkesiphycus

Alariaceae

  • Alaria
  • Aureophycus
  • Druehlia
  • Eualaria
  • Hirome
  • Lessoniopsis
  • Pleurophycus
  • Pterygophora
  • Undaria
  • Undariella
  • Undariopsis

Chordaceae

Costariaceae

  • Agarum
  • Costaria
  • Dictyoneurum
  • Thalassiophyllum

Laminariaceae

Lessoniaceae

  • Ecklonia
  • Eckloniopsis
  • Egregia
  • Eisenia
  • Lessonia

Pseudochordaceae

  • Pseudochorda

Nemodermatales

Nemodermataceae

  • Nemoderma

Ralfsiales

Neoralfsiaceae

  • Neoralfsia

Ralfsiaceae

  • Basispora
  • Hapalospongidion
  • Jonssonia
  • Myrionemopsis
  • Porterinema
  • Ralfsia

Scytosiphonales

Chnoosporaceae

  • Chnoospora

Scytosiphonaceae

  • Colpomenia
  • Hydroclathrus
  • Petalonia
  • Rosenvingea
  • Scytosiphon
  • Coelocladia
  • Phaeostroma

Scytothamnales

Scytothamnaceae

  • Asteronema
  • Scytothamnus
  • Stereocladon

Splachnidiaceae

  • Splachnidium

Sporochnales

Sporochnaceae

  • Austronereia
  • Bellotia
  • Carpomitra
  • Encyothalia
  • Nereia
  • Perisporochnus
  • Perithalia
  • Sporochnema
  • Sporochnus
  • Tomaculopsis

Tilopteridales

Halosiphonaceae

  • Halosiphon

Masonophycaceae

  • Masonophycus

Phyllariaceae

  • Phyllariopsis
  • Saccorhiza

Stschapoviaceae

  • Stschapovia

Tilopteridaceae

  • Haplospora
  • Phaeosiphoniella
  • Tilopteris

Incertae sedis

  • Neoleptonema

Heterochordariaceae

  • Analipus

References

  1. ^ Silberfeld; Rousseau; de Reviers (2014). "An updated classification of Brown algae (Ochrophyta, Phaeophyceae)". Cryptogamie, Algologie. 35 (2): 117–156. doi:10.7872/crya.v35.iss2.2014.117.
  2. ^ Poong, Sze-Wan; Lim, Phaik-Eem; Phang, Siew-Moi; Sunarpi, H.; West, John A.; Kawai, Hiroshi (2013). "A molecular-assisted floristic survey of crustose brown algae (Phaeophyceae) from Malaysia and Lombok Island, Indonesia based on rbcL and partial cox1 genes". Journal of Applied Phycology. 26 (2): 1231–1242. doi:10.1007/s10811-013-0081-9.
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