Galaxauraceae

Galaxauraceae is a family of red algae (Rhodophyta) in the order Nemaliales.

Galaxauraceae
Galaxaura rugosa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
(unranked): Archaeplastida
Division: Rhodophyta
Class: Florideophyceae
Order: Nemaliales
Family: Galaxauraceae
P.G.Parkinson, 1983[1]
Genera

See text

The type genus is Galaxaura.

The name Galaxauraceae was first published by Russian botanist Paulus Horaninow (1796-1865) in 1843.[2]

The family has cosmopolitan distribution.[3]

Calcification (while, chalky outer layer) appears in all members of the Galaxauraceae family.[4]

List of genera

According to the AlgaeBase (amount of species per genus);[5]

  • Actinotrichia Decaisne - 5 spp.
  • Dichotomaria Lamarck - 20 spp.
  • Galaxaura J.V.Lamouroux - 25 spp.
  • Tricleocarpa Huisman & Borowitzka - 8 spp.

Former genera; Alysium J.Agardh, Brachycladia Sonder, Halysium Kützing, Holonema J.E.Areschoug, Microthoe (Decaisne) Harvey, Pseudoscinaia Setchell, Spongotrichum Kützing and Zanardinia J.G.Agardh[5]

References
  1. Parkinson, P.G. (1983). The typification and status of the name Chaetangium (Algae). Taxon 32: 605-610
  2. P. Horaninow, Tetractys Naturae seu Systema quadrimembre omnium naturalium, quod primis lineis systematis naturae, a se editis. 62 pp. Typis K. Wienhöberianis, Petropoli [St. Petersburg].
  3. "Galaxauraceae". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
  4. John Marinus Huisman Algae of Australia (2006), p. 4, at Google Books
  5. "Taxonomy Browser :: AlgaeBase". www.algaebase.org. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
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