Higher Classification: > Kingdom Chromista > Subkingdom Harosa > Infrakingdom Heterokonta > Phylum Ochrophyta > Subphylum Phaeista > Infraphylum Limnista > Superclass Fucistia

Phaeophyceae Kjellman, 1891

Rank: Class
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Class group names

*Phaeophycota*		synonym
*Phaeophyta*	R. Wettstein	synonym

Children

Asterocladales
Choristocarpales
Cutleriales Bessey, 1907
Desmarestiales Setchell & Gardner, 1925
Dictyosiphonales
Dictyotales Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1828
Discosporangiales
Ectocarpales Bessey, 1907
Fucales Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1827
Laminariales Migula, 1909
Nemodermatales
Phaeothamniales
Ralfsiales
Scytosiphonales Feldmann, 1949
Scytothamnales A.F. Peters & M.N. Clayton, 1998
Sphacelariales Migula, 1909
Sporochnales Sauvageau, 1926
Syringodermatales E.C. Henry, 1984
Tilopteridales Bessey, 1907

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: bruinwieren sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

English: brown algae

Swedish: brunalger

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	Parker, S.P. (Ed.) (1982). Synopsis and classification of living organisms. McGraw Hill Book Company: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-07-079031-0. 1166, 1232 pp.

Taxon found in 820 publications.

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Citation

Guiry, Michael D. (2014). Phaeophyceae. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:830