PRELIMINARY CHECK-LIST OF BROWN MARINE ALGAE FROM THE AEGEAN SEA
based on published and unpublished records



MELANOPHYCEAE Rabenhorst
(PHAEOPHYCEAE Kjellman)
FUCOPHYCIDEAE Areschoug

DISCOSPORANGIALES O.C. Schmidt
DISCOSPORANGIACEAE O.C. Schmidt

DISCOSPORANGIUM Falkenberg

Discosporangium mesarthrocarpum (Meneghini) Hauck (Kawai &al. 2007)

CUTLERIALES Kjellman
CUTLERIACEAE Hauck

CUTLERIA Greville

C. adspersa (Roth) De Notaris

C. chilosa (Falkenberg) Silva
(C. monoica Ollivier; Dural & al. 1997)

C. multifida (J. E. Smith) Greville

ZANARDINIA Nardo ex Zanardini

Z. typus (Nardo) Silva in Greuter (2000)

FUCALES C. Agardh
CYSTOSEIRACEAE De Toni
CYSTOSEIROIDEAE Kjellman

CYSTOSEIRA C. Agardh

C. amentacea (C. Agardh) Bory

C. barbata (Stackhouse) C. Agardh

C. compressa (Esper) Gerloff et Nizamuddin

C. corniculata (Turner) Zanardini

C. crinita Duby

C. crinitophylla Ercegovic

C. dubia Valiante

C. elegans Sauvageau

C. foeniculacea (Linne) Greville
(C. schiffneri Hamel; Gomez Garreta 2001:133)

C. mediterranea Sauvageau

C. sauvageauana Hamel

C. spinosa Sauvageau
(C. adriatica Sauvageau; Gomez Garreta 2001:155)

C. squarrosa De Notaris

C. zosteroides C. Agardh

SARGASSACEAE Kuetzing

SARGASSUM C. Agardh

S. acinarium (Linne) Setchell

S. hornschuchii C. Agardh

S. trichocarpum J. Agardh

S. vulgare C. Agardh, nom. illeg. (Silva & al. 1996:707)

DESMARESTIALES Setchell et Gardner
ARTHROCLADIACEAE Chauvin

ARTHROCLADIA Duby

A. villosa (Hudson) Duby

DICTYOTALES Hauck
DICTYOTACEAE Dumortier

DICTYOPTERIS Lamouroux

D. polypodioides (D. C.) Lamouroux

DICTYOTA Lamouroux

D. dichotoma (Hudson) Lamouroux

D. dichotoma var. intricata (C. Agardh) Greville

D. linearis (C. Agardh) Greville

DILOPHUS J. Agardh

D. fasciola (Roth) Howe
(D. mediterraneus Schiffner; De Clerck 2003:180)
D. fasciola var. repens (J. Agardh) J. Feldmann

D. spiralis (Montagne) Hamel

PADINACEAE Naegeli

PADINA Adanson

P. pavonica (Linne) Lamouroux
[P. pavonia, orth. variant]

P. boryana Thivy

STYPOPODIUM Kuetzing

S. schimperi (Kuetzing) Verlaque et Boudouresque (1991:201)

TAONIA J. Agardh

T. atomaria (Woodward) J. Agardh

ZONARIA C. Agardh

Z. tournefortii (Lamouroux) Montagne

ECTOCARPALES Oltmanns
(CHORDARIALES Setchell et Gardner
DICTYOSIPHONALES Setchell et Gardner
SCYTOSIPHONALES J. Feldmann)

ACINETOSPORACEAE J. Feldmann

ACINETOSPORA Bornet

A. crinita (Carmichael) Kornmann

FELDMANNIA Hamel

F. battersioides (Ercegovic) Cormaci et Furnari (Dural & al. 1997)

F. globifera (Kuetzing) Hamel

F. irregularis (Kuetzing) Hamel

F. lebelii (Crouan frat.) Hamel
F. caespitula var. lebelii (Crouan frat.) Knoepffler-Peguy (Taskin & Oezturk 2007:174, Ayvalik near Lesbos)

F. padinae (Buffham) Hamel (Taskin & Oezturk 2007:175, Ayvalik near Lesbos)

F. paradoxa (Montagne) Hamel

HERPONEMA J. Agardh

H. graniferum Kuckuck

HINCKSIA J. Gray
(Giffordia Batters)

H. granulosa (Smith) Silva (Taskin & Oezturk 2007:175, Ayvalik near Lesbos)

H. mitchelliae (Harvey) Silva (Silva & al. 1987:73, 130)
[Giffordia mitchelliae (Harvey) Batters]

PYLAIELLA Bory

P. littoralis (Linne) Kjellman
NOTE:a report from the Makedonian coast by Anagnostidis (1968) is with reservations. Older Mediterranean records (Hauck 1885) refer to f. fluviatilis that is apparently referable to Ectocarpus

SPONGONEMA Kuetzing

S. tomentosum (Hudson) Kuetzing
NOTE:A report from the Pagasitikos Gulf [Diannelidis 1935, as E. tomentosus (Huds.) Lyngb.] is considered doubtful because 'Das Vorkommen liegt ausserhalb des Verbreitungsgebietes' (Gerloff & Geissler 1974:744)

CHORDARIACEAE Greville

CLADOSIPHON Kuetzing

C. irregularis (Sauvageau) Kylin (Taskin & Oezturk 2007:182, f.13-14, Ayvalik near Lesbos)

C. mediterraneus Kuetzing

GONTRANIA Sauvageau

G. lubrica Sauvageau

LIEBMANNIA J. Agardh

L. leveillei J. Agardh

MESOGLOIA C. Agardh

M. lanosa Crouan frat.

M. vermiculata (Smith) S.F. Gray (Taskin & Oezturk 2007:184, Ayvalik near Lesbos)

PHAEOSTROMA Kuckuck

P. bertholdii Kuckuck (Taskin & Oezturk 2007:178, Ayvalik near Lesbos)

SAUVAGEAUGLOIA Kylin

S. griffithsiana (Harvey) Hamel (Taskin & Oezturk 2007:184, Ayvalik near Lesbos)

ECTOCARPACEAE C. Agardh

ECTOCARPUS Lyngbye

E. siliculosus (Dillwyn) Lyngbye

E. siliculosus f. arctus (Kuetzing) Kuckuck

ELACHISTACEAE Kjellman

ELACHISTA Duby

E. fucicola (Vellye) Areschoug (Taskin & Oezturk 2007:185, Ayvalik near Lesbos)

E. intermedia Crouan frat.

HALOTHRIX Reinke

H. lumbricalis (Kuetzing) Reinke (Taskin & Oezturk 2007:185, Ayvalik near Lesbos)

GIRAUDIACEAE J. Feldmann

GIRAUDIA Derbes et Solier

G. sphacelarioides Derbes et Solier in Castagne

LEATHESIACEAE Farlow
CORYNOPHLOEA Kuetzing
NOTE:After Coryne (head, club) and the masculine substantive phloios (cortex). Hence the orthography should be Corynophloea. Translated to 'Keulenrinde' by Kuetzing in Phycologia germanica

C. flaccida (C. Agardh) Kuetzing

LEATHESIA S.F. Gray

L. cf. mucosa J. Feldmann

MICROCORYNE Stroemfelt

M. ocellata Stroemfelt (Taskin 2008:176, Ayvalik near Lesbos)

MYRIACTULA Kuntze

M. rigida (Sauvageau) Hamel

M. rivulariae (Suhr) J. Feldmann

M. stellulata (Harvey) Levring

M. sp.
LITHODERMATACEAE Hauck

PSEUDOLITHODERMA Svedelius

P. adriaticum (Hauck) Verlaque

MYRIONEMATACEAE Naegeli

MYRIONEMA Greville

M. liechtensternii Hauck

M. orbiculare J. Agardh

M. strangulans Greville

M. sp.

MYRIOTRICHIACEAE Kjellman

MYRIOTRICHIA Harvey

M. adriatica Hauck

M. clavaeformis Harvey
[? Streblonema sphaericum (Derbes et Solier) Thuret]

M. repens Hauck

PROTASPEROCOCCUS Sauvageau

P. myriotrichiformis Sauvageau

PUNCTARIACEAE (Thuret) Kjellman

ASPEROCOCCUS Lamouroux

A. bullosus Lamouroux

A. ensiformis (Delle Chiaje) Wynne (Taskin 2008:179, Ayvalik near Lesbos)

A. fistulosus (Hudson) Hooker

PUNCTARIA Greville

P. latifolia Greville

SCYTOSIPHONACEAE Farlow

COLPOMENIA (Endlicher) Derbes et Solier

C. peregrina Sauvageau (Orfanidis 1990)

C. sinuosa (Roth) Derbes et Solier

HYDROCLATHRUS Bory

H. clathratus (C. Agardh) Howe

PETALONIA Derbes et Solier

P. fascia (O. F. Mueller) Kuntze
NOTE:the sporophyte stage resembles Ralfsia clavata (Harvey) Crouan frat.

SCYTOSIPHON C. Agardh

S. lomentaria (Lyngbye) Link
NOTE:the sporophyte stage resembles Microspongium gelatinosum Reinke

SOROCARPACEAE Pedersen

KUCKUCKIA Hamel

K. spinosa (Kuetzing) Kuckuck

KUETZINGIELLA Kuckuck

K. battersii (Sauvageau) Kuckuck (Taskin & Oezturk 2007:178, Assos and Ayvalik near Lesbos)

SPERMATOCHNACEAE Kjellman

NEMACYSTUS Derbes et Solier

N. flexuosus (C. Agardh) Kylin var. giarudii (J. Agardh) De Jong in de Jong & Prud'homme van Reine (1997: 15)


SPERMATOCHNUS Kuetzing

S. paradoxus (Roth) Kuetzing
STILOPHORACHEAE Naegeli

STILOPHORA J. Agardh

S. tenella (Esper) Silva (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996)
[S. rhizodes (Turner) J. Agardh, nom. illeg.]

STRIARIACEAE Kjellman

STICTYOSIPHON Kuetzing

S. ardiaticus Kuetzing (Taskin 2008:182, Ayvalik near Lesbos)

STRIARIA Greville

S. attenuata (Greville) Greville

LAMINARIALES Kylin
PHYLLARIACEAE Tilden
PHYLLARIOIDEAE Kjellman

SACCORHIZA Pylaie

S. polyschides (Lightfoot) Batters
RALFSIALES nomen
RALFSIACEAE Farlow

RALFSIA Berkeley

R. verrucosa (Areschoug) Areschoug

SPOROCHNALES Sauvageau
SPOROCHNACEAE Greville

NEREIA Zanardini

N. filiformis (J. Agardh) Zanardini

SPOROCHNUS C. Agardh

S. pedunculatus (Hudson) C. Agardh

SPHACELARIALES Migula
CHORISTOCARPACEAE Kjellman

CHORISTOCARPUS Zanardini

C. tenellus (Kuetzing) Zanardini

CLADOSTEPHACEAE Oltmanns

CLADOSTEPHUS C. Agardh
NOTE:After klados (branch) and the neuter substantive stephos (Lyngbye in Tentamen Hydrophytologiae Danicae)

C. spongiosum f. verticillatum (Lightfoot) Prud'homme van Reine

DISCOSPORANGIACEAE O.C. Schmidt

DISCOSPORANGIUM Hauck

D. mesarthrocarpum (Meneghini) Hauck (Dural & al. 1997)

SPHACELARIACEAE Decaisne

SPHACELARIA Lyngbye

S. cirrosa (Roth) C. Agardh

S. fusca (Hudson) S.F. Gray

S. plumula Zanardini

S. rigidula Kuetzing (Dural & al. 1997)

S. tribuloides Meneghini

STYPOCAULACEAE Oltmann

HALOPTERIS Kuetzing

H. filicina (Grateloup) Kuetzing

STYPOCAULON Kuetzing

S. scoparium (Linne) Kuetzing

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