Pneophyllum

Pneophyllum is a genus of multicellular red algae in the family Corallinaceae and subfamily Mastophoroideae.[1][2]

Pneophyllum
Pair of Priacanthus hamrur above coral with patches of Pneophyllum conicum at Marsa Shouna, Red Sea, Egypt
Scientific classification Edit this classification
(unranked): Archaeplastida
Division: Rhodophyta
Class: Florideophyceae
Order: Corallinales
Family: Corallinaceae
Subfamily: Mastophoroideae
Genus: Pneophyllum
Kütz.

Species

This genus includes the following species:

  • Pneophyllum amplexifrons (Harvey) Y. M. Chamberlain & R. E. Norris
  • Pneophyllum cetinaensis Silva & Johansen, 1986
  • Pneophyllum confervicola (Kützing) Y. M. Chamberlain
  • Pneophyllum conicum (E. Y. Dawson) Keats, Y. M. Chamberlain & Baba
  • Pneophyllum coronata Rosanoff, 1994
  • Pneophyllum coronatum (Rosanoff) Penrose
  • Pneophyllum fragile Kützing
  • Pneophyllum limitatum (Foslie) Y. M. Chamberlain
  • Pneophyllum lobescens Y. M. Chamberlain, 1983
  • Pneophyllum mauritianum (Foslie) P.C.Silva
  • Pneophyllum myriocarpum (P.Crouan & H.Crouan) Y. M. Chamberlain, 1983
  • Pneophyllum zonale (P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan) Y. M. Chamberlain
  • Pneophyllum zostericola (Foslie) Kloczcova, also known as sea leek leaf-sucking algae

References
  1. Aguirre, Julio; Perfectti, Francisco; Braga, Juan (1 December 2010), "Integrating Phylogeny, Molecular Clocks, and the Fossil Fecord in the Evolution of Coralline Algae (Corallinales and Sporolithales, Rhodophyta)", Paleobiology, 36 (4): 519–533, doi:10.1666/09041.1
  2. Krings, Thomas; Taylor, Edith; Taylor, Michael (2009), Paleobotany (2nd ed.), Amsterdam: Academic Press, p. 149, ISBN 0123739721


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