Higher Classification: > Kingdom Chromista > Subkingdom Harosa > Infrakingdom Heterokonta > Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Phaeophyceae > Subclass Fucophycidae > Order Fucales > Family Sargassaceae

Cystoseira C.Agardh, 1820

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Abrotanifolia*	Stackhouse, 1809	synonym

Children

Cystoseira compressa (Esper) Gerloff & Nizamuddin, 1975
Cystoseira corniculata (Turner) Zanardini, 1841
Cystoseira crinita Duby, 1830
Cystoseira crinitophylla Ercegovic, 1952
Cystoseira foeniculacea (Linnaeus) Greville, 1830
Cystoseira humilis Schousboe ex Kützing, 1860
Cystoseira pelagosae Ercegovic, 1952
Cystoseira platyclada Sauvageau, 1912
Cystoseira schiffneri Hamel, 1939
Cystoseira selaginoides Naccari, 1828
Cystoseira wildpretii Nizamuddin, 1995

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ウガノモク属

Literature

basis of record	Guiry, M.D. (2001). Macroalgae of Rhodophycota, Phaeophycota, Chlorophycota, and two genera of Xanthophycota, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 20-38
additional source	Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. searched on YYYY-MM-DD.
additional source	Silva, P. C.; Basson, P. W.; Moe, R. L. (1996). Catalogue of the benthic marine algae of the Indian Ocean. University of California Publications in Botany. 79: 1-1259.
taxonomy source	Orellana, S.; Hernández, M.; Sansón, M. (2019). Diversity of Cystoseira sensu lato (Fucales, Phaeophyceae) in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean based on morphological and DNA evidence, including Carpodesmia gen. emend. and Treptacantha gen. emend. European Journal of Phycology. 54(3): 447-465.

Genbank

Taxonomy

Published in AlgaeBase

Citation

Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway (taxonomic information republished from AlgaeBase with permission of M.D. Guiry). Cystoseira C.Agardh, 1820. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:144126