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.{{cite journal
|last1=Silberfeld |last2=Rousseau |last3=de Reviers |year=2014
|title=An updated classification of Brown algae (Ochrophyta, Phaeophyceae)
|journal=Cryptogamie, Algologie |volume=35 |issue=2 |pages=117–156 |doi=10.7872/crya.v35.iss2.2014.117 |s2cid=86227768 }}
[[Discosporangiophycidae]]
=[[Discosporangiales]]=
==[[Choristocarpaceae]]==
- Choristocarpus Zanardini 1860
==[[Discosporangiaceae]]==
- Discosporangiumtite Falkenberg 1878
[[Ishigeophycidae]]
- Diplura Hollenberg 1969{{cite journal|last1=Poong|first1=Sze-Wan|last2=Lim|first2=Phaik-Eem|last3=Phang|first3=Siew-Moi|last4=Sunarpi|first4=H.|last5=West|first5=John A.|last6=Kawai|first6=Hiroshi|title=A molecular-assisted floristic survey of crustose brown algae (Phaeophyceae) from Malaysia and Lombok Island, Indonesia based on rbcL and partial cox1 genes|journal=Journal of Applied Phycology|date=2013|volume=26|issue=2|pages=1231–1242|doi=10.1007/s10811-013-0081-9|s2cid=254605033 }}
=[[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]]==
=[[Desmarestiales]]=
==[[Arthrocladiaceae]]==
==[[Desmarestiaceae]]==
=[[Ectocarpales]]=
==[[Acinetosporaceae]]==
==[[Adenocystaceae]]==
==[[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]]==
==[[Ectocarpaceae]]==
==[[Mesosporaceae]]==
==[[Myrionemataceae]]==
==[[Pylaiellaceae]]==
=[[Fucales]]=
==[[Bifurcariopsidaceae]]==
==[[Durvillaeaceae]]==
==[[Fucaceae]]==
==[[Himanthaliaceae]]==
==[[Hormosiraceae]]==
==[[Notheiaceae]]==
==[[Sargassaceae]]==
{{see also|List of Sargassum species}}