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                   Padina pavonica

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

Cutleria monoica Ollivier  
(= Cutleria chilosa (Falkenberg) Silva,   ="Aglaozonia chilosa Falkenberg" sporophytic stage)

Cutleria multifida (Smith) Greville 
(= Ulva multifida Smith,   ="Aglaozonia parvula (Greville) Zanardini",  ="Aglaozonia reptans (Crouan & Crouan) Kuetzing", both sporophytic stages)
Coppejans suggests that the differentiation between Cutleria monoica Ollivier and Cutleria multifida (Smith) Greville could need further investigations.

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

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

Desmarestia lingulata (Lightfoot) 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)

Dictyota linearis (Agardh) Greville 
(=Zonaria linearis Agardh,  =Dictyota dichotoma var. linearis Greville)

Dilophus fasciola (Roth) Howe  
(=Fucus fasciola Roth)

Dilophus fasciola var. repens (Agardh) Feldmann  
(=Dictyota repens Agardh,  =Dilophus repens (Agardh) Agardh)

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

Dilophus mediterraneus Schiffner

Dilophus palissade nomen nudum

Lobophora variegata (Lamouroux) Womersley 
(=Dictyota variegata Lamouroux,  =Pocockiella variegata (Lamouroux) Papenfuss)

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

Padina tenuis Bory
(Boudouresque suggest that the existence of this taxon could need confirm)

Spatoglossum solieri (Chauvin ex Montagne) Kuetzing 
(=Dictyota solieri Chauvin ex Montagne,  =Taonia solieri Chauvin)

Stypopodium schimperi (Kuetzing) Verlaque & Boudouresque 
(=Zonaria schimperi Kuetzing)

Taonia atomaria (Woodward) Agardh 
(=Ulva atomaria Woodward)

Zonaria tournefortii (Lamouroux) Montagne 
(=Fucus tournefortii Lamouroux,  =Zonaria flava (Clemente) Agardh   =Padina tournefortiana Lamouroux)

Feldmannia caespitula (Agardh) Knoeppfler-Peguy 
(=Ectocarpus caespitulus Agardh,  =Feldmannia paradoxa   sensu Hamel, non (Montagne) Hamel)

Feldmannia globifera (Kuetzing) Hamel
Often written, incorrectly, "globifer" 
(=Ectocarpus globifer Kuetzing)

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

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

Hincksia mitchelliae (Harvey) Silva
(=Giffordia mitchelliae (Harvey) Hamel. Often written, incorrectly, "mitchellae",  =Ectocarpus mitchelliae Harvey)

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

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

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)

Castagnea cylindrica Sauvageau

Castagnea irregularis Sauvageau

Castagnea mediterranea (Kuetzing) Hauck  
(=Cladosiphon mediterraneus Kuetzing)

Corynophloea flaccida (Kuetzing)

Elachista intermedia Crouan & Crouan

Elachista jabukae Ercegovic

Elachista neglecta Kuckcuck

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

Gontrania lubrica Sauvageau

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

Kuckuckia spinosa (Kuetzing) Kuckuck 
(=Ectocarpus spinosus Kuetzing,  =Ectocarpus crinitus Carmichael ex Harvey in Hooker)

Leathesia mucosa Feldmann

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

Mesospora macrocarpa (Feldmann) den Hartog 
(=Ralfsia macrocarpa Feldmann,  =Mesospora mediterranea Feldmann)

Microspongium gelatinosum Reinke

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

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

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

Myrionema hemisphaericum Sauvageau

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

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

Myriotrichia clavaeformis Harvey 
(=Myriotrichia repens Hauck)   
Pedersen suggested that further studies would be performed on these taxa.

Nemacystus ramulosus Derbés & Solier

Nemoderma tingitanum Shousboe ex Bornet

Punctaria latifolia Greville

Spermatochnus paradoxus (Roth) Kuetzing

Stictyosiphon adriaticus Kuetzing

Stictyosiphon soriferus (Reinke) Rosevinge 
(=Kjellmania sorifera Reinke)

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

Strepsithalia liebmanniae Miranda

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

Zosterocarpus oedogonium (Meneghini ex Kuetzing) Bornet 
(=Ectocarpus oedogonium Meneghini ex Kuetzing)   

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

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)

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

Cystoseira balearica Sauvageau

Cystoseira barbata Agardh

Cystoseira caespitosa Sauvageau.  
Boudouresque suggests that further studies would be performed on the distinction between Cystoseira caespitosa and Cystoseira balearica.

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

Cystoseira crinita (Desfontaines) Duby 
(=Fucus crinitus Desfontaines,  =Cystoscira crinita Duby)

Cystoseira crinitophilla Ercegovic

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

Cystoseira mediterranea Sauvageau

Cystoseira montagnei Agardh emendavit Montagne

Cystoseira sauvageauiana Hamel

Cystoseira spinosa Sauvageau

Cystoseira stricta (Montagne) Sauvageau 
(=Cystoseira amentacea Bory var. stricta Montagne,  =Halerica amentacea Kuetzing)

Cystoseira tamariscifolia (Hudson) Papenfuss

Cystoseira zosteroides (Turner) Agardh (=Fucus zosteroides Turner,   =Cystoseira opuntioides Bory in Montagne)

Sargassum acinarium  (Linnaeus) Agardh 
(=Fucus acinarius Linnaeus,  =Sargassum linifolium (Turner) Agardh)

Sargassum flavifolium Kuetzing

Sargassum hornschuchii Agardh

Sargassum muticum (Yendo) Fensholt

Sargassum vulgare Agardh  
(=Sargassum salicifolium Bory)

Chorda filum (Linnaeus) Stackhouse

Laminaria japonica Areshoug

Laminaria ochroleuca de la Playe

Phyllariopsis brevipes Henry & South 
(=Phyllaria reniformis (Lamouroux) Rostafinsky ex Bornet, =Laminaria reniformis Lamouroux)

Phyllariopsis purpurascens Henry & South 
(=Phyllaria purpurascens (Agardh) Rostafinsky ex Bornet)

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

Undaria pinnatifida (Harvey) Suringar

Pseudolithoderma adriaticum (Hauck) Verlaque 
(=Lithoderma adriaticum Hauck,  =Lithoderma fatiscens  sensu Hauck non Areshoug)

Ralfsia bornetii Kuckuck

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

Choristocarpus tenellus (Kuetzing) Zanardini 
(=Ectocarpus tenellus Kuetzing)

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)

Discosporangium mesarthrocarpum (Meneghini) Hauck 
(=Callithamnion mesarthrocarpum Meneghini)

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

Sphacelaria cirrosa (Roth) Agardh 
(=Conferva cirrosa Roth,  =Sphacelaria histrix Suhr,  =Sphacelaria cirrosa var. mediterranea Coppejans,  =Sphacelaria cirrosa f. meridionalis Leblond)

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

Sphacelaria papilioniformis Coppejans

Sphacelaria plumula Zanardini

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)

Carpomitra costata (Stackhouse) Batters var. mediterranea Feldmann

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

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

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Gayral P. 1966 - Les Algues des Cotes Francaises. Editions Doin, Paris.

Riedl R. 1983 - Fauna und Flora des Mitterlmeeres. Verlag Paul Parey, Hamburg-Berlin.