The Corallinophycidae is a grouping of several calcifying red algal lineages recovered by molecular analysis.[1]

Corallinophycidae
Corallina officinalis L., herbarium sheet. Collected in Heligoland, Germany
Corallina officinalis L., herbarium sheet. Collected in Heligoland, Germany
Scientific classification Edit this classification
(unranked): Archaeplastida
Division: Rhodophyta
Class: Florideophyceae
Subclass: Corallinophycidae

Orders edit

According to AlgaeBase, it contains;[2]

  • Order Corallinales P.C.Silva & H.W.Johansen (826 species)
  • Order Corallinapetrales S.Y.Jeong, W.A.Nelson, B.Y.Won & T.O.Cho (2)
  • Order Corallinophycidae ord. incertae sedis (6)
  • Order Rhodogorgonales S.Fredericq, J.N.Norris & C.Pueschel (18)
  • Order Sporolithales Le Gall & G.W.Saunders (61)

References edit

  1. ^ Le Gall, L.; Payri, C.; Bittner, L.; Saunders, G. (2010). "Multigene phylogenetic analyses support recognition of the Sporolithales ord. Nov". Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution. 54 (1): 302–305. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2009.05.026. PMID 19490946.
  2. ^ "Taxonomy Browser :: AlgaeBase". www.algaebase.org. Retrieved 12 December 2022.