Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Chromista
Subregnum: Harosa
Infraregnum: Heterokonta
Phylum: Ochrophyta
Subphylum: Phaeista
Infraphylum: Limnista
Superclassis: Fucistia
Classis: Phaeophyceae
Subclassis: Fucophycidae
Ordo: Scytothamnales
Familiae: Asteronemataceae – Bachelotiaceae – Splachnidiaceae

Name

Scytothamnales A.F.Peters & M.N.Clayton, 1998

• emend. Silberfeld, Racault, R.L. Fletcher, A.F. Peters, F. Rousseau et Reviers, 2011
• Type: Scytothamnus J.D.Hooker & Harvey

References

• Peters, A.F. & Clayton, M.N. 1998. Molecular and morphological investigations of three brown algal genera with stellate plastids: evidence for Scytothamnales ord. nov. (Phaeophyceae). Phycologia 37: 106–113, 7 figs, 3 tables. DOI: 10.2216/i0031-8884-37-2-106.1 Reference page. 

• Silberfeld, T., Racault, M.-F.L.P., Fletcher, R.L., Couloux, A., Rousseau, F. & Reviers, B. de 2011. Systematics and evolutionary history of pyrenoid-bearing taxa in brown algae (Phaeophyceae). European Journal of Phycology 46(4): 361-377. DOI: 10.1080/09670262.2011.628698 Reference page. 

• Silberfeld, T., Rousseau, F. & Reviers, B. de 2014. An updated classification of brown algae (Ochrophyta, Phaeophyceae). Cryptogamie, Algologie 35(2): 117–156. DOI: 10.7872/crya.v35.iss2.2014.117 Reference page. 
• Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2017. Scytothamnales. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. Accessed 18 April 2017.
• Scytothamnales in the World Register of Marine Species

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