List of brown algal genera

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

## Discosporangiophycidae

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### Discosporangiales

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#### Choristocarpaceae

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* Choristocarpus Zanardini 1860

#### Discosporangiaceae

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* Discosporangiumtite Falkenberg 1878

## Ishigeophycidae

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* Diplura Hollenberg 1969[2]

### Ishigeales

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#### Ishigeaceae

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* Ishige Yendo 1907

#### Petrodermataceae

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* Petroderma Kuckuck 1897

## Dictypophycidae

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### Syringodermatales

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#### Syringodermataceae

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* Microzonia Agardh 1984
* Syringoderma Levring 1940

### Onslowiales

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#### Onslowiaceae

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* Onslowia Searles 1980
* Verosphacella Henry 1987

### Dictyotales

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#### Dictyotaceae

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* 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

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#### Lithodermataceae

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

#### Phaeostrophionaceae

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* Phaeostrophion Setchell & Gardner 1924

#### Sphacelodermaceae

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* Sphaceloderma Kuckuck 1894

#### Stypocaulaceae

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

#### Cladostephaceae

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* Cladostephus Agardh 1817

#### Sphacelariaceae

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* 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

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### Asterocladales

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#### Asterocladaceae

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* Asterocladon Müller, Parodi & Peters 1998

### Ascoseirales

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#### Ascoseiraceae

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* Ascoseira Skottsberg 1907

### Cutleriales

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#### Cutleriaceae

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* Cutleria
* Zanardinia

### Desmarestiales

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#### Arthrocladiaceae

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* Arthrocladia

#### Desmarestiaceae

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* Desmarestia
* Himantothallus
* Phaeurus

### Ectocarpales

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#### Acinetosporaceae

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* Acinetospora
* Feldmannia
* Geminocarpus
* Hincksia
* Pogotrichum
* Pylaiella

#### Adenocystaceae

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* Adenocystis
* Caepidium
* Utriculidium

#### Chordariaceae

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* 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

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* Chordariopsis

#### Ectocarpaceae

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* Ectocarpus
* Kuckuckia

#### Mesosporaceae

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* Mesospora

#### Myrionemataceae

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* Asterotrichia

#### Pylaiellaceae

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* Bachelotia

### Fucales

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#### Bifurcariopsidaceae

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* Bifurcariopsis

#### Durvillaeaceae

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* Durvillaea

#### Fucaceae

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* Ascophyllum
* Fucus
* Hesperophycus
* Pelvetia
* Pelvetiopsis
* Silvetia
* Xiphophora

#### Himanthaliaceae

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* Himanthalia

#### Hormosiraceae

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* Hormosira

#### Notheiaceae

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* Notheia

#### Sargassaceae

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See also: List of Sargassum species

* Anthophycus
* Axillariella
* Bifurcaria
* Bifurcariopsis
* Carpoglossum
* Caulocystis
* Coccophora
* Cystophora
* Cystoseira
* Ericaria
* Gongolaria
* Halidrys
* Hizikia
* Hormophysa
* Myagropsis
* Myogropsis
* Myriodesma
* Polycladia
* Sargassum
* Sargassopsis
* Sirophysalis
* Stephanocystis
* Stolonophora
* Turbinaria

#### Seirococcaceae

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* Cystophaera
* Marginariella
* Phyllospora
* Seirococcus

### Laminariales

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#### Akkesiphycaceae

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* Akkesiphycus

#### Alariaceae

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

#### Chordaceae

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* Chorda

#### Costariaceae

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* Agarum
* Costaria
* Dictyoneurum
* Thalassiophyllum

#### Laminariaceae

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* Arthrothamnus
* Costularia
* Cymathere
* Feditia
* Gigantea
* Laminaria
* Macrocystis
* Nereocystis
* Pelagophycus
* Pelagophycus x Macrocystis
* Phycocastanum
* Phyllariella
* Polyschidea
* Postelsia
* Pseudolessonia
* Saccharina
* Streptophyllopsis

#### Lessoniaceae

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* Ecklonia
* Eckloniopsis
* Egregia
* Eisenia
* Lessonia

#### Pseudochordaceae

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* Pseudochorda

### Nemodermatales

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#### Nemodermataceae

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* Nemoderma

### Ralfsiales

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#### Neoralfsiaceae

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* Neoralfsia

#### Ralfsiaceae

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* Basispora
* Hapalospongidion
* Jonssonia
* Myrionemopsis
* Porterinema
* Ralfsia

### Scytosiphonales

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#### Chnoosporaceae

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* Chnoospora

#### Scytosiphonaceae

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* Colpomenia
* Hydroclathrus
* Petalonia
* Rosenvingea
* Scytosiphon
* Coelocladia
* Phaeostroma

### Scytothamnales

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#### Scytothamnaceae

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* Asteronema
* Scytothamnus
* Stereocladon

#### Splachnidiaceae

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* Splachnidium

### Sporochnales

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#### Sporochnaceae

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

### Tilopteridales

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#### Halosiphonaceae

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* Halosiphon

#### Masonophycaceae

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* Masonophycus

#### Phyllariaceae

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* Phyllariopsis
* Saccorhiza

#### Stschapoviaceae

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* Stschapovia

#### Tilopteridaceae

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* Haplospora
* Phaeosiphoniella
* Tilopteris

### Incertae sedis

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* Neoleptonema

#### Heterochordariaceae

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* Analipus

## References

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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. S2CID 86227768.
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. S2CID 254605033.