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                   Padina pavonica

Cutleria adspersa (Maertens ex Roth) De Notaris 
(="Aglaozonia melanoidea Shousboe ex Sauvageau" sporophytic stage)

Cutleria multifida (Smith) Greville 
(= Ulva multifida Smith,   ="Aglaozonia parvula (Greville) Zanardini",  ="Aglaozonia reptans (Crouan & Crouan) Kuetzing", both a sporophytic stage)

Zanardinia typus (Nardo) Furnari 
(=Zanardinia prototypus (Nardo) Nardo nom.illeg.,   =Zanardinia collaris (Agardh) Crouan & Crouan)

Arthrocladia villosa (Hudson) Duby 
(=Conferva villosa Hudson)

Desmarestia aculeata (Linnaeus) Lamouroux

Desmarestia dresnayi Lamouroux ex Leman

Desmarestia lingulata (Lightfoot) Lamouroux

Desmarestia viridis (Mueller) Lamouroux

Dictyopteris membranacea (Stackhouse) Batters 
(=Fucus membranacea Stackhouse,    =Dictyopteris polypodioides (De Candolle) Lamouroux,   =Haliseris polypodioides (Desfontaines) Agardh)

Dictyota dichotoma (Hudson) Lamouroux  
(=Ulva dichotoma Hudson)

Dictyota dichotoma (Hudson) Lamouroux var. intricata (Agardh) Greville 
(=Zonaria dichotoma var. intricata Agardh,  =Fucus implexus Desfontaines,  =Dictyota dichotoma var. implexa (Desfontaines) Gray,  =Dictyota implexa Lamouroux)

Dilophus spiralis (Montagne) Hamel 
(=Dictyota spiralis Montagne,  =Dilophus ligulatus (Kuetzing) Feldmann, =Dictyota ligulata Kuetzing)

Padina pavonica (Linnaeus) Thivy 
(=Ulva pavonica Linnaeus,  =Padina pavonia (Linnaeus) Lamouroux)

Taonia atomaria (Woodward) Agardh 

Acinetospora crinita (Carmichael) Sauvageau
(=Acinetospora pusilla (Griffiths ex Harvey) De Toni)

Feldmannia irregularis (Kuetzing) Hamel 
(=Ectocarpus irregularis Kuetzing)

Feldmannia lebelii (Areschoug ex Crouan & Crouan) Hamel
(=Ectocarpus lebelii Areschoug ex Crouan & Crouan)

Feldmannia padinae (Buffham) Hamel
(=Ectocarpus padinae (Buffham) Sauvageau

Feldmannia paradoxa (Montagne) Hamel
(=Feldmannia globifera (Kuetzing) Hamel,  =Ectocarpus globifer Kuetzing)

Feldmannia simplex (Crouan & Crouan) Hamel 
(=Ectocarpus simplex Crouan & Crouan)

Hincksia fenestrata (Harvey ex Berkeley) Silva
(=Ectocarpus fenestratus Harvey ex Berkeley,  =Giffordia fenestrata Harvey ex Berkeley)

Hincksia granulosa (Smith) Silva
(=Ectocarpus granulosus (Smith) Agardh,  =Giffordia granulosa (Smith) Hamel)

Hincksia hincksiae (Harvey) Silva
(=Ectocarpus hincksiae Harvey,  =Giffordia hincksiae (Harvey) Hamel)

Hincksia mitchelliae  (Harvey) Silva
(=Ectocarpus mitchelliae  Harvey,  =Giffordia mitchelliae (Harvey) Hamel)

Hincksia ovata (Kjellman) Silva
(=Ectocarpus ovatus Kjellman,  =Giffordia ovata (Kjellman) Kylin)

Hincksia sandriana (Zanardini) Silva
(=Ectocarpus sandrianus Zanardini,  =Giffordia sandriana (Zanardini) Hamel

Hincksia secunda (Kuetzing) Silva
(=Ectocarpus secundus Kuetzing,  =Giffordia secunda (Kuetzing) Batters

Pogotrichium filiforme Reinke
(=Litosiphon filiformis (Reinke) Batters

Pylaiella littoralis (Linnaeus) Kjellman
(=Pilayella littoralis (Linnaeus) Kjellman)
Silva proposed to restore the original ortography "Pylaiella"

Acrothrix gracilis Kylin
(=Acrothrix norvegica Levring)

Asperococcus bullosus Lamouroux
(=Asperococcus turneri (Dillwin ex Smith) Hooker,  =Asperococcus turneri var. profundus Feldmann)

Asperococcus compressus Griffiths ex Hooker 
(=Haloglossum compressum (Griffiths ex Hooker) Hamel,  =Ectocarpus repens Reinke)

Asperococcus fistulosus (Hudson) Hooker
(=Hecatonema reptans (Kjellman) Kylin nom.illeg.)

Asperococcus scaber Kuckuck

Botrytella micromora Bory
(=Sorocarpus uvaeformis (Lyngbye) Pringsheim,  =Sorocarpus micromorus (Bory) Silva)

Buffhamia specisa Batters

Chilionema hispanicum (Sauvageau) Fletcher
(=Ascocyclus hispanicus Sauvageau,  =Hecatonema hispanicus (Sauvageau) Loiseaux)

Chilonema ocellatum (Kuetzing) Kornmann
(=Chilionema nathaliae Sauvageau)
Hardy & Guiry suggest that this entity could be a phase in life-history of Asperococcus fistulosus (Hudson) Hooker.

Chordaria flagelliformis (Mueller) Agardh

Cladosyphon contortus (Thuret) Kylin
(=Castagnea contorta Thuret)

Cladosyphon zosterae (Agardh) Kylin
(=Castagnea zosterae (Agardh) Thuret)

Corynophlaea crispa (Harvey) Kuckuck
(=Leathesia crispa Harvey)

Cylindrocarpus microscopicus (Crouan & Crouan)

Dichosporangium chordariae Wollny
(=Streblonema chordariae (Wallny) Cotton nom.illeg.)

Dictyosiphon chordarius Areschoug
(=Dictyosiphon mesogloia Areschoug,  =Gobia baltica (Gobi) Reinke)

Dictyosiphon foeniculaceus (Hudson) Greville
(=Dictyosiphon hippuroides (Lyngbye) Kuetzing)

Elachista flaccida (Dillwyn) Fries

Elachista fucicola (Velley) Areschoug
(=Elachiata grevillei Arnott ex Harvey)

Elachista scutulata (Smith) Duby

Elachista stellaris Areschoug

Eudesme virescens (Carmichael ex Berkeley) Agardh
(=Castagnea virescens (Carmichael ex Berkeley) Thuret)

Giraudia sphacelarioides Derbés & Solier in Castagne
Often written, incorrectly, "Giraudya"

Halothrix lumbricalis (Kuetzing) Reinke

Hecatonema terminale (Kuetzing) Kylin
(=Ectocarpus terminalis Kuetzing,  =Hecatonema maculans (Collins) Sauvageau)

Herponema solitarium (Sauvageau) Hamel
(=Ectocarpus solitarius Sauvageau)

Herponema valiantei (Bornet ex Sauvageau) Hamel 
(=Ectocarpus valiantei Bornet ex Sauvageau)

Herponema velutinum (Greville) Agardh
(=Ectocarpus velutinum (Greville) Kuetzing

Isthmoplea sphaerophora (Carmichael ex Harvey) Kjellman

Kuetzingiella batersii (Bornet ex Sauvageau) Kornmann
(=Ectocarpus batersii Bornet ex Sauvageau)

Kuetzingiella holmesii (Batters) Kornmann
(=Ectocarpus holmesii Batters)

Laminarocolax aecidioides (Rosenvinge) Burkhardt & Peters
(=Gononema aecidioides (Rosenvinge) Pedersen,  =Myrionema aecidioides (Rosenvinge) Sauvageau)

Laminarocolax tomentosoides (Farlow) Kylin
(=Ectocarpus tomentosoides Farlow)

Leathesia difformis (Linnaeus) Areschoug
(=Leathesia tuberiformis (Smith) Gray)

Leblondiella densa (Batters) Hamel
(=Myriotrichia densa Batters)

Leptonematella fasciculata (Reinke) Silva
(=Leptonema fasciculatum (Reinke)

Liebmannia leveillei Agardh
(=Mesogloia leveillei (Agardh) Meneghini)

Litosiphon laminariae (Lyngbye) Harvey
(=Streblonema volubile (Crouan & Crouan) Thuret,  =Litosiphon hibernicus (Johnson) Batters,  =Litosiphon pusillus (Carmichael & Hooker) Harvey)

Mesogloia lanosa Crouan & Crouan

Mesogloia vermiculata (Smith) Gray

Microcoryne ocellata Stroemelt

Microspongium gelatinosum Reinke

Microspongium globosum Reinke
(=Myrionema polycladum Sauvageau,  =Hecatonema globosum (Reinke) Batters)

Microspongium immersum (Levring) Pedersen
(=Sreblonema immesum Levring)

Mikrosyphar polysiphoniae Kuckuck

Mikrosyphar porphyrae Kuckuck

Myriactula rivulariae (Suhr in Areshoug) Feldmann 
(=Elachista rivulariae Suhr in Areshoug)

Myriactula areshougii (Crouan & Crouan) Hamel
(=Myriactis areshougii (Crouan & Crouan) Batters)

Myriactula chordae (Areschoug) Levring
(=Elachista stellaris var. chordae Areschoug)

Myriactula cladestina (Crouan & Crouan) Feldmann
(=Elachista cladestina Crouan & Crouan,  =Ectocarpus cladestinum (Crouan & Crouan) Sauvageau)

Myriactula haydenii (Gatty) Levring
(=Myriactula haydenii (Gatty) Batters)

Myriactula rivulariae (Suhr) Feldmann
(=Myriactis pulvinata Kuetzing)

Myriactula stellulata (Harvey) Levring 
(=Conferva stellulata Harvey)

Myriocladia lovenii Agardh

Myriocladia tomentosa Crouan & Crouan

Myrionema corunnae Sauvageau

Myrionema liechtensternii Hauck
(=Hecatonema liechtensternii (Hauck) Batters)

Myrionema magnusii (Sauvageau) Loiseaux
Hardy & Guiry suggest that this entity could be a life-history phase of another Species.

Myrionema orbiculare Agardh 
(=Ascocyclus orbicularis (Agardh) Kjellman)
Hardy & Guiry suggest that this entity could be a life-history phase of another Species.

Myrionema papillosum Sauvageau

Myrionema strangulans Carmichael ex Greville 
(=Myrionema vulgare Thuret in Le Jolis)

Myriotrichia clavaeformis Harvey 
(=Streblonema sphaericum (Derbès & Solier) Thuret in Le Jolis,  =Myriotrichia filiformis Harvey,  =Myriotrichia repens Hauck)   
Pedersen suggested that further studies would be performed on these taxa.

Petrospongium berkleyi (Greville) Nageli ex Kuetzing
(=Cylindrocarpus berkleyi (Greville) Crouan & Crouan

Phaeostroma pustulosum Kuckuck
(=Phaeostroma prostratum (Gran) Kuckuck,  =Streblonema aequale Oltmanns)

Phycocelis crouaniorum Athanasiadis
(=Chilionema reptans (Crouan & Crouan) Sauvageau,  =Hecatonema reptans Sauvageau)

Phycocelis foecunda Stroemfelt
(=Ascocyclus foecundus (Stroemfelt) Reinke,  =Ascocyclus saccharinae Cotton,  =Hecatonema foecundum (Stroemfelt) Loiseaux,  =Chilionema foecundum (Stroemfelt) Fletcher)

Proteocarpus speciosus (Boergsen) Kuckuck ex Kornmann
(=Hecatonema speciosum (Boergsen) Cotton

Punctaria crispata (Kuetzing) Batters

Punctaria latifolia Greville

Punctaria plantaginea (Roth) Greville

Punctaria tenuissima (Agardh) Greville
(=Desmotrichium undulatum (Agardh) Greville,  =Punctaria undulata Agardh,  =Punctaria baltica (Kuetzing) Batters)

Sauvageaugloia griffithsiana (Griffiths ex Harvey) Hamel ex Kylin
(=Mesogloia griffithsiana Griffiths ex Harvey,  =Sauvageaugloia chordariaeformis (Crouan & Crouan) Kylin)

Spermatochnus paradoxus (Roth) Kuetzing

Sphaerotrichia divaricata Agardh
(=Chordaria divaricata Agardh)

Spongonema tomentosum (Hudson) Kuetzing
(=Ectocarpus tomentosus (Hudson) Lyngbye,  =Ectocarpus luteolus Sauvageau)

Stictyosiphon adriaticus Kuetzing

Stictyosiphon griffthsianus (Le Jolis) Holmes & Batters
(=Phleospora brachiata Bornet)

Stictyosiphon soriferus (Reinke) Rosenvinge

Stictyosiphon tortilis (Ruprecht) Reinke

Stilophora tenella (Esper) Silva
(=Stilophora rhizoides (Turner) Agardh,  =Fucus rhizoides Turner)

Stilopsis lejolisii (Thuret) Kuckuck & Nienburg ex Hamel
(=Spermatochnus lejolisii (Thuret) Reinke)

Streblonema breve (Sauvageau) De Toni
(=Ectocarpus brevis Sauvageau)

Streblonema fasciculatum Thuret

Streblonema helophorum (Rosenvinge) Batters

Streblonema Infestans (Gran) Batters
(=Endodictyon infestans Gran)

Streblonema intestinum (Reinsch) Batters

Streblonema parasiticum (Sauvageau) Levring
(=Ectocarpus parasiticus Sauvageau)

Streblonema stilophorae (Crouan & Crouan) Kylin
(=Ectocarpus stilophorae Crouan & Crouan)

Streblonema tenuissimum Hauck

Streblonema zanardinii (Crouan & Crouan) De Toni

Strepsithalia buffhamiana (Batters) Batters
(=Sterblonema buffhamiana Batters)

Striaria attenuata (Greville) Greville 
(=Carmichaelia attenuata Greville)

Ulonema rhizophorum Foslie

Ectocarpus fasciculatus Harvey
(=Ectocarpus landsburgii Harvey)

Ectocarpus siliculosus (Dillwyn) Lyngbye  
(=Conferva siliculosa Dillwyn,  =Ectocarpus confervoides (Roth) Kjellman)

Colpomenia sinuosa (Maertens ex Roth) Derbés & Solier in Castagne 
(=Ulva sinuosa Maertens ex Roth,  =Asperococcus sinuosus Bory)

Colpomenia peregrina (Sauvageau) Hamel

Compsonema microsporangium (Batters) Kornmann
(=Ectocarpus microsporangius Batters)

Compsonema minutum (Agardh) Kornmann
(=Ectocarpus minutus Agardh)

Compsonema saxicolum (Kuckuck) Kornmann
(=Myrionema saxicolum Kuckuck)

Hydroclathrus clathratus (Bory ex Agardh) Howe 
(=Encoelium clathratum Bory ex Agardh)

Petalonia fascia (Mueller) Kuntze 
(=Fucus fascia Mueller,  =Phyllitis fascia (Mueller) Kuetzing,  =Petalonia fascia var. debilis (Agardh) Hauch)

Petalonia filiformis (Batters) Kunze
(=Phyllitis filiformis Batters)

Petalonia zosterifolia (Reinke) Kuntze
(=Phyllitis zosterifolia Reinke)

Scytosiphon dotyi Winne

Scytosiphon lomentaria (Lyngbye) Link 
(=Chorda lomentaria Lyngbye. Often written, incorrectly, "lomentarius",  =Scytosyphon pigmaeus Reinke)

Sorapion simulans Kuckuck
(=Lithoderma simulans (Kuckuck) Batters)

Sorapion kjellmanii (Wille) Rosevinge
Hardy & Guiry suggest that this entity could be a synonimy of Sorapion simulans Kuckuck, or even a phase in the life-history of Porterinema fluviatile (Porter) Waern.

Stragularia clavata (Harvey) Hamel
(=Ralfsia clavata (Harvey) Crouan & Crouan,  =Ralfia disciformis Crouan & Crouan
Hardy & Guiry suggest that this entity could be a phase in the life-history of Petalonia fascia (Mueller) Kuntze.

Stragularia spongiocarpa (Batters) Hamel
(=Ralfsia spongiocarpa Batters)

Symphocarpus strangulans Rosevinge

Bifurcaria bifurcata Ross
(=Bifurcaria tuberculata (Hudson) Stackhouse)

Cystoseira baccata (Gmelin) Silva
(=Cystoseira fibrosa (Hudson) Agardh

Cystoseira barbata Agardh

Cystoseira compressa (Esper) Gerloff & Nizamuddin 
(=Fucus compressus Esper,  =Cystoseira fimbriata (Desfontaines) Bory,   Cystoseira abrotanifolia sensu Agardh)

Cystoseira ercegovicii Giaccone f. tenuiramosa (Ercegovic) Giaccone 
(=Cystoseira discors Giaccone non Agardh emendavit Sauvageau)

Cystoseira foeniculacea (Linnaeus) Greville

Cystoseira humilis Schousboe ex Kuetzing

Cystoseira nodicaulis (Withering) Roberts
(=Cystoseira granulata Agardh)

Cystoseira tamariscifolia (Hudson) Papenfuss
(=Cystoseira ericoides (Linnaeus) Agardh

Halydris siliquosa (Linnaeus) Lyngbye

Ascophyllum nodosum (Linnaeus) Le Jolis
(=Ascophyllum mackayi (Turner) Holmes & Batters. Often written, incorrectly, "mackaii")

Fucus ceranoides Linnaeus

Fucus cottonii Winne & Magne
(=Fucus muscoides (Cotton) Feldmann & Magne nom.illeg.)

Fucus distichus Linnaeus
(=Fucus anceps Harvey & Ward ex Carruthers,  =Fucus distichus subsp. anceps (Harvey & Ward ex Carruthers) Powell)

Fucus evanescens Agardh
(=Fucus distichus subsp. evanescens (Agardh) Powell,  =Fucus distichus subsp. edentatus (Agardh) Powell)

Fucus serratus Linnaeus

Fucus spiralis Linnaeus

Fucus vesiculosus Linnaeus

Pelvetia canaliculata (Linnaeus) Decaisne & Thuret
(=Fucus canaliculatus Linnaeus)

Sargassum muticum (Yendo) Fensholt

Alaria esculenta (Linnaeus) Greville

Chorda filum (Linnaeus) Stackhouse

Halosiphon tomentosum (Lyngbye) Jaasund
(=Chorda tomentosa Lyngbye)

Laminaria digitata (Hudson) Lamouroux

Laminaria hyperborea (Gunnerus) Foslie
(=Laminaria cloustoni Edmonston)

Laminaria longicruris de la Pylaie

Laminaria ochroleuca de la Pylaie

Laminaria saccharina (Linnaeus) Lamouroux

Saccorhiza polyschides (Lightfoot) Batters 
(=Saccorhiza bulbosa (Hudson) de la Pylaie)

Undaria pinnatifida (Harvey) Suringar

Pseudolithoderma extensum (Crouan & Crouan) Lund 
(=Lithoderma extensum (Crouan & Crouan) Hamel)

Pseudolithoderma roscoffense Loiseaux

Ralfsia pusilla (Stroemfelt) Batters

Ralfsia verrucosa (Areshoug) Areschoug
(=Cruoria verrucosa Areshoug)

Cladostephus hirsutus (Linnaeus) Boudouresque & Perret ex Boudouresque et al. 
(=Fucus hirsutus Linnaeus,   =Cladostephus verticillatus (Lightfoot) Lyngbye,   =Cladostephus spongiosus (Hudson) Agardh f. verticillatus (Lightfoot) Prud'homme van Reine,   =Cladostephus myriophyllum Agardh)     
If Cladostephus spongiosus and Cladostephus verticillatus can be retained separate species, the latter (the Mediterranean one) should be named hirsutus Boudouresque et al. (Prud'homme van Reine)

Cladostephus spongiosus (Hudson) Agardh

Halopteris filicina (Grateulop) Kuetzing 
(=Ceramium filicinum Grateulop)

Sphacelaria caespitula Lyngbye

Sphacelaria cirrosa (Roth) Agardh 
(=Conferva cirrosa Roth,  =Sphacelaria histrix Suhr,  =Sphacelaria cirrosa var. mediterranea Coppejans,  =Sphacelaria cirrosa f. meridionalis Leblond,  =Sphacelaria bipinnata (Kuetzing) Sauvageau,  =Sphacelaria histrix Suhr ex Reinke)

Sphacelaria fusca (Hudson) Gray 
(=Conferva fusca Hudson)

Sphacelaria mirabilis (Reinke ex Batters) Prud'homme van Reine
(=Battersia mirabilis Reinke ex Batters)

Sphacelaria nana Nageli ex Kuezing
(=Sphacelaria britannica Sauvageau,  =Sphacelaria olivacea Pringsheim)

Sphacelaria plumigera Holmes

Sphacelaria plumosa Lyngbye
(=Chaetopteris plumosa (Lyngbye) Kuetzing)

Sphacelaria plumula Zanardini

Sphacelaria racemosa Greville

Sphacelaria radicans (Dillwin) Agardh

Sphacelaria rigidula Kuetzing 
(=Sphacelaria furcigera Kuetzing)

Sphacelaria tribuloides Meneghini

Stypocaulon scoparium (Linnaeus) Kuetzing 
(=Conferva scoparia Linnaeus,  =Halopteris scoparia (Linnaeus) Sauvageau,   =Stypocaulon scoparium f. hiemalis Agardh,  =Stypocaulon scoparium f. aestivalis Agardh)

Carpomitra costata (Stackhouse) Batters
(=Fucus costatus Stackhouse)

Nereia filiformis (Agardh) Zanardini 
(=Desmarestia filiformis Agardh)

Sporochnus pedunculatus (Hudson) Agardh 
(=Fucus pedunculatus Hudson)

Tilopteris mertensii (Turner) Kuetzing

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