PRELIMINARY CHECK-LIST OF GREEN MARINE ALGAE FROM THE AEGEAN SEA
based on published and unpublished records



CHLOROPHYCEAE Kuetzing
TETRASPORALES Lemmermann
TETRASPORACEAE (Naegeli) Wittrock
PALMOPHYLLUM Kuetzing

P. crassum (Naccari) Rabenhorst

ULOTRICHALES Borzi
ULOTRICHACEAE Kuetzing
ULOTHRIX Kuetzing

? U. flacca (Dillwyn) Thuret
(U. pseudoflacca Wille)

U. implexa (Kuetzing) Kuetzing

U. subflaccida Wille

CTENOCLADALES P.C.Silva
ULVELACEAE Schmidle
ACROCHAETE Pringsheim

A. inflata (Ercegovic) Gallardo et al. (Panayotidis 1979)
(Pseudodictyon infatum Ercegovic)

ENDOCLADIA Reinke

E. leptochate (Huber) Burrows
[Acrochaete leptochate (Huber) Nielsen]

E. viridis Reinke
[Acrochaete viridis (Reinke) Nielsen
Endoderma viride (Reinke) Lagerheim]

EPICLADIA Reinke

E. sp.

PRINGSHEIMIELLA von Hoehnel

P. scutata (Reinke) Marchewianka

PHAEOPHILALES Chappell et al. (1990)
PHAEOPHILACEAE Chappell et al.
PHAEOPHILA Hauck

P. dendroides (Crouan frat.) Batters

ACROSIPHONIALES Jonsson
ACROSIPHONIACEAE Jonsson
UROSPORA Areschoug

U. penicilliformis (Roth) Areschoug
(Codiolum gregarium Braun)

SPONGOMORPA Kuetzing

? S. aeruginosa (Linne) Hoek
[Cladophora lanosa (Roth) Kuetzing
Cladophora lanosa f. uncialis (O. F. Mueller) Hauck]

? S. arcta (Dillwyn) Kuetzing
[Cladophora arcta (Dillwyn) Kuetzing]

ULVALES Blackman et Tansley
GOMONTIACEAE De Toni
GOMONTIA Bornet et Flahault

G. polyrhiza (Lagerheim) Bornet et Flahault

MONOSTROMATACEAE Kunieda
BLIDINGIA Kylin

B. marginata (J. Agardh) Dangeard
(Enteromorpha marginata J. Agardh)

ULVACEAE Dumortier
ENTEROMORPHA Link

E. clathrata (Roth) Greville

E. compressa (Linne) Nees

E. flexuosa (Wulfen) J. Agardh
(E. juergensii Kuetzing
E. lingulata J. Agardh)

E. intestinalis (Linne) Nees

E. linza (Linne) J. Agardh

E. multiramosa Bliding

E. muscoides (Clemente) Cremades
[E. ramulosa (J. Smith) Carmichael in Hooker
E. crinita Nees]

E. prolifera (O. F. Mueller) J. Agardh

ULVA Linne

U. fasciata Delile

U. lactuca Linne

U. lactuca f. laciniata (J. Agardh) De Toni
(U. rigida f. laciniata J. Agardh)

U. rigida C. Agardh
[U. lactuca Linne var. rigida (C. Agardh) Le Jolis]

U. rotundata Bliding

CLADOPHORALES G. S. West
ANADYOMENACEAE Kuetzing

ANADYOMENE Lamouroux

A. stellata (Wulfen) C. Agardh
(Ulva stellata Wulfen in Jacquin
A. flabellata Lamouroux)

MICRODICTYON Decaisne

M. tenuius J. Gray
[M. umbilicatum (Velley) Zanardini p.p.]

CHAETOSIPHONIACEAE Blackman et Tansley
BLASTOPHYSA Reinke

B. rhizopus Reinke
(B. polymorpha Kjellman)

CLADOPHORACEAE Willie
CHAETOMORPHA Kuetzing

C. aerea (Dillwyn) Kuetzing

C. crassa (C. Agardh) Kuetzing

C. linum (O. F. Mueller) Kuetzing
[Conferva linum O.F.Mueller
C. chlorotica (Montagne) Kuetzing]

CLADOPHORA Kuetzing

C. albida (Nees) Kuetzing
[C. hamosa (Kuetzing) Kuetzing
C. neesiorum (C. Agardh) Kuetzing
C. pumila Kuetzing]

C. coelothrix Kuetzing
[C. repens (J. Agardh) Harvey
Cladophoropsis modonensis (Kuetzing) Reinbold
Siphonocladus concrescens Reinbold (Leliart & Coppejans 2006: 672)]

C. dalmatica Kuetzing
(C. arachnoidea Schiffner)

C. echinus (Biasoletto) Kuetzing
[C. cornea (Kuetzing) Kuetzing]

C. feredayi Harvey
(C. pellucida f. nana Hauck)

C. flexuosa (O. F. Mueller) Kuetzing
(C. gracilis Kuetzing)

C. glomerata (Linne) Kuetzing

C. hutchinsiae (Dillwyn) Kuetzing
(C. rissoana Kuetzing)

C. laetevirens (Dillwyn) Kuetzing
[C. meneghiniana (Kuetzing) Kuetzing
C. repens Harvey f. meneghiniana (Kuetzing) Hauck
C. utriculosa Kuetzing var. laetevirens (Dillwyn) Hauck
? C. affinis Schiffner
Siphonocladus rhodensis Reinbold (Leliart & Coppejans 2006: 673)

C. lehmanniana (Lindenberg) Kuetzing
[C. utriculosa Kuetzing
C. utriculosa var. longiarticulata Kuetzing
C. utriculosa var. ramulosa (Meneghini) Hauck
C. ramulosa Meneghini]

C. pellucida (Hudson) Kuetzing
[C. trichotoma (C. Agardh) Kuetzing]

C. prolifera (Roth) Kuetzing
[C. prolifera var. scoparia (Kuetzing) Schiffner]

C. retroflexa (Crouan frat.) Hoek

C. rupestris (Linne) Kuetzing
[C. rupestris var. mediterranea Kuetzing
C. rupestris f. mediterranea (Kuetzing) Ardissone]

C. sericea (Hudson) Kuetzing
[C. rudolphiana (C. Agardh) Harvey
C. mediterranea Hauck]

? C. socialis Kuetzing

C. vadorum (Areschoug) Kuetzing
(C. corynarthra Kuetzing)

C. vagabunda (Linne) Hoek
[C. fracta (Vahl) Kuetzing f. marina Hauck
C. penicillata Kuetzing
C. utriculosa Kuetzing var. aegaea (Kuetzing) Kuetzing]

RHIZOCLONIUM Kuetzing

R. riparium (Roth) Harvey

R. tortuosum (Dillwyn) Kuetzing
[Chaetomorpha tortuosa Kuetzing
Chaetomorpha capillaris (Kuetzing) Boergesen]

SIPHONOCLADACEAE Schmitz
CLADOPHOROPSIS Boergesen

? C. membranacea (C. Agardh) Boergesen
[? Siphonocladus membranaceus (C. Agardh) Bornet var. caespitosus (C. Agardh) De Toni
? Siphonocladus psyttaliensis Schmitz]

Cladophoropsis sundanensis Reinbold (Leliart & Coppejans 2006: 679)

SIPHONOCLADUS Schmitz

S. pusillus (Kuetzing) Hauck
(Valonia pusilla Kuetzing
S. wilbergii Schmitz)

VENTRICARIA Olsen et J. West

V. ventricosa (J. Agardh) Olsen et West
(Valonia ventricosa J. Agardh)

VALONIACEAE Kuetzing
VALONIA C. Agardh

V. macrophysa Kuetzing

Valonia utricularis (Roth) C. Agardh
(Conferva utricularis Roth
? V. caespitula Zanardini)

BRYOPSIDALES Schaffner
BRYOPSIDACEAE Bory
BRYOPSIS Lamouroux

B. adriatica (J. Agardh) Meneghini
[B. plumosa (Hudson) C. Agardh var. adriatica (J. Agardh) Hauck]

B. duplex De Notaris
[B. balbisiana Lamouroux sensu J. Feldmann
B. balbisiana Lamouroux var. disticha J. Agardh
B. disticha (J. Agardh) Kuetzing]

B. corymbosa J. Agardh

B. feldmannii Gallardo et Furnari
(B. cupressoides J. Feldmann)

B. hypnoides Lamouroux

B. muscosa Lamouroux

B. plumosa (Hudson) C. Agardh

B. sp.

CAULERPACEAE Kuetzing
CAULERPA Lamouroux

C. prolifera (Forsskaal) Lamouroux
DISTRIBUTION: Crete

C. racemosa (Forsskaal) J. Agardh var. cylindracea (Sonder) Verlaque, Huisman et Boudouresque (2003, p. 336)
[C. racemosa cf. var. occidentalis (J. Agardh) Boergesen (Verlaque & al. 2000, tab. II; Panayotidis & Zuljevic 2001)]
DISTRIBUTION: Crete, Kalimnos, Samos, Saronikos

C. racemosa var. lamourouxii f. requienii (Montagne) Weber van Bosse (Verlaque & al. 2000, tab. II)
DISTRIBUTION: Thira

CODIACEAE Kuetzing
CODIUM Stackhouse

? C. adhaerens Cabrera ex C. Agardh

C. bursa (Linne) C. Agardh

C. coralloides (Kuetzing) Silva

C. decorticatum (Woodward) Howe
[C. elongatum (Turner) C. Agardh
Fucus elongatus Turner]

C. effusum (Rafinesque) Delle Chiaje
(C. difforme Kuetzing)

C. fragile subsp. tomentosoides (Goor) Silva

C. vermilara (Olivi) Delle Chiaje

DERBECIACEAE Hauck
DERBESIA Solier

D. cf. tenuissima (Morris et De Notaris) Crouan frat.
(Halicystis cf. parvula Schmitz)

PEDOBESIA MacRaild et Womersley

P. simplex (Kuetzing) Wynne et Leliaert (2001)
[P. lamourouxii (J. Agardh) J. Feldmann et al.
Derbesia lamourouxii (J. Agardh) Solier
? Derbesia cervicornis Schiffner]

HALIMEDACEAE Link
HALIMEDA Lamouroux

H. tuna (Ellis et Solander) Lamouroux

PENICILLUS Lamarck

P. capitatus Lamarck
(Espera mediterranea Decaisne)

UDOTEACEAE J. Agardh
FLABELLIA Reichenbach

F. petiolata (Turra) Nizamuddin
[Udotea petiolata (Turra) Boergesen
Udotea desfontainii (Lamouroux) Decaisne
? Udotea minima Ernst]

PSEUDOCHLORODESMIS Boergesen

P. furcellata (Zanardini) Boergesen
(Bryopsis furcellata Zanardini)

DASYCLADALES Pascher
DASYCLADACEAE Kuetzing
DASYCLADUS C. Agardh

D. vermicularis (Scopoli) Krasser
[D. clavaeformis (Roth) C. Agardh
Myrsidrum bertolonii Bory]

ACETABULARIACEAE Naegeli
ACETABULARIA Lamouroux

A. acetabulum (Linne) Silva
(A. mediterranea Lamouroux, nom. illeg.)

POLYPHYSACEAE Kuetzing
PARVOCAULIS Berger, Fettweiss, Gleissberg, Liddle, Richter, Sawitzky et Zuccarello (2003)

P. parvula (Solms-Laubach) Berger et al.
[Polyphysa parvula (Solms-Laubach) Schnetter et Bula-Meyer
Acetabularia parvula Solms-Laubach (Cirik 1978)
Acetabularia moebii Solms-Laubach
? Acetabularia wettsteinii Schussnig]
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