# List of brown algal genera

This is a list of the orders, families and genera in the class Phaeophyceae — the brown algae.

## Discosporangiophycidae
### Discosporangiales
#### Choristocarpaceae

* Choristocarpus Zanardini 1860

#### Discosporangiaceae

* Discosporangiumtite Falkenberg 1878

## Ishigeophycidae

* Diplura Hollenberg 1969

### Ishigeales
#### Ishigeaceae

* Ishige Yendo 1907

#### Petrodermataceae

* Petroderma Kuckuck 1897

## Dictypophycidae
### Syringodermatales
#### Syringodermataceae

* Microzonia Agardh 1984
* Syringoderma Levring 1940

### Onslowiales
#### Onslowiaceae

* Onslowia Searles 1980
* Verosphacella Henry 1987

### Dictyotales
#### Dictyotaceae

* Canistrocarpus De Paula & De Clerck 2006
* Chlanidophora Agardh 1894 non Berg 1877
* Dictyopteris Lamouroux 1809a nom. cons.
* Dictyota Lamouroux 1809b nom. cons. [Dilophus Agardh 1882; Glossophora Agardh 1882; Glossophorella Nizamuddin & Campbell 1995; Pachydictyon Agardh 1894]
* Dictyopsis Troll 1931
* Distromium Levring 1940
* Exallosorus Phillips 1997
* Herringtonia Kraft 2009
* Homoeostrichus Agardh 1894
* Lobophora Agardh 1894 [Pocockiella Papenfuss 1943]
* Lobospira Areschoug 1854
* Newhousia Kraft et al. 2004
* Padina Adanson 1793 nom. cons. [Dictyerpa Collins & Harvey 1901; Vaughaniella Borgesen 1950]
* Padinopsis Ercegovic 1955
* Rugulopteryx De Cerck & Coppejans 2006
* Scoresbyella Womersley 1987
* Spatoglossum Kutzing 1843
* Stoechospermum Kutzing 1843
* Stypopodium Kutzing 1843
* Taonia Agardh 1848
* Zonaria Agardh 1817

### Sphacelariales
#### Lithodermataceae

* Bodanella Zimmermann 1927
* Heribaudiella Gomont 1896
* Lithoderma Areschoug 1875
* Pseudolithoderma Svedelius 1910

#### Phaeostrophionaceae

* Phaeostrophion Setchell & Gardner 1924

#### Sphacelodermaceae

* Sphaceloderma Kuckuck 1894

#### Stypocaulaceae

* Alethocladus
* Halopteris Kutzing 1843 [Stypocaulon Kutzing 1843]
* Phloiocaulon Geyler 1866
* Protohalopteris Draisma, Prud'homme & Kawai 2010
* Ptilopogon Reinke 1890

#### Cladostephaceae

* Cladostephus Agardh 1817

#### Sphacelariaceae

* Battersia Reinke ex Batters 1890 emend. Draisma, Prud'homme & Kawai 2010
* Chaetopteris Kutzing 1843
* Herpodiscus South 1974 emend. Draisma, Prud'homme & Kawai 2010
* Sphacelaria Lyngbye 1818
* Sphacella Reinke 1890
* Sphacelorbus Draisma, Prud'homme & Kawai 2010

## Fucophycidae
### Asterocladales
#### Asterocladaceae

* Asterocladon Müller, Parodi & Peters 1998

### Ascoseirales
#### Ascoseiraceae

* Ascoseira Skottsberg 1907

### Cutleriales
#### Cutleriaceae

* Cutleria
* Zanardinia

### Desmarestiales
#### Arthrocladiaceae

* Arthrocladia

#### Desmarestiaceae

* Desmarestia
* Himantothallus
* Phaeurus

### Ectocarpales
#### Acinetosporaceae

* Acinetospora
* Feldmannia
* Geminocarpus
* Hincksia
* Pogotrichum
* Pylaiella

#### Adenocystaceae

* Adenocystis
* Caepidium
* Utriculidium

#### Chordariaceae

* Acrothrix
* Ascoseirophila
* Asperococcus
* Austrofilum
* Chordaria
* Cladosiphon
* Corycus
* Delamarea
* Dictyosiphon
* Elachista
* Eudesme
* Giraudia
* Gononema
* Halothrix
* Haplogloia
* Hecatonema
* Heterosaundersella
* Hummia
* Isthmoplea
* Laminariocolax
* Laminarionema
* Leathesia
* Leptonematella
* Litosiphon
* Microspongium
* Mikrosyphar
* Myelophycus
* Myriogloea
* Myrionema
* Myriotrichia
* Papenfussiella
* Petrospongium
* Pleurocladia
* Polytretus
* Proselachista
* Protectocarpus
* Punctaria
* Sauvageaugloia
* Soranthera
* Sorocarpus
* Spermatochnus
* Sphaerotrichia
* Stictyosiphon
* Streblonema
* Striaria
* Stschapovia
* Tinocladia

#### Chordariopsidaceae

* Chordariopsis

#### Ectocarpaceae

* Ectocarpus
* Kuckuckia

#### Mesosporaceae

* Mesospora

#### Myrionemataceae

* Asterotrichia

#### Pylaiellaceae

* Bachelotia

### Fucales
#### Bifurcariopsidaceae

* Bifurcariopsis

#### Durvillaeaceae

* Durvillaea

#### Fucaceae

* Ascophyllum
* Fucus
* Hesperophycus
* Pelvetia
* Pelvetiopsis
* Silvetia
* Xiphophora

#### Himanthaliaceae

* Himanthalia

#### Hormosiraceae

* Hormosira

#### Notheiaceae

* Notheia

#### Sargassaceae

* Anthophycus
* Axillariella
* Bifurcaria
* Bifurcariopsis
* Carpoglossum
* Caulocystis
* Coccophora
* Cystophora
* Cystoseira
* Ericaria
* Gongolaria
* Halidrys
* Hizikia
* Hormophysa
* Myagropsis
* Myogropsis
* Myriodesma
* Polycladia
* Sargassum
* Sargassopsis
* Sirophysalis
* Stephanocystis
* Stolonophora
* Turbinaria

#### Seirococcaceae

* Cystophaera
* Marginariella
* Phyllospora
* Seirococcus

### Laminariales
#### Akkesiphycaceae

* Akkesiphycus

#### Alariaceae

* Alaria
* Aureophycus
* Druehlia
* Eualaria
* Hirome
* Lessoniopsis
* Pleurophycus
* Pterygophora
* Undaria
* Undariella
* Undariopsis

#### Chordaceae

* Chorda

#### Costariaceae

* Agarum
* Costaria
* Dictyoneurum
* Thalassiophyllum

#### Laminariaceae

* Arthrothamnus
* Costularia
* Cymathere
* Feditia
* Gigantea
* Laminaria
* Macrocystis
* Nereocystis
* Pelagophycus
* Pelagophycus x Macrocystis
* Phycocastanum
* Phyllariella
* Polyschidea
* Postelsia
* Pseudolessonia
* Saccharina
* Streptophyllopsis

#### Lessoniaceae

* Ecklonia
* Eckloniopsis
* Egregia
* Eisenia
* Lessonia

#### Pseudochordaceae

* Pseudochorda

### Nemodermatales
#### Nemodermataceae

* Nemoderma

### Ralfsiales
#### Neoralfsiaceae

* Neoralfsia

#### Ralfsiaceae

* Basispora
* Hapalospongidion
* Jonssonia
* Myrionemopsis
* Porterinema
* Ralfsia

### Scytosiphonales
#### Chnoosporaceae

* Chnoospora

#### Scytosiphonaceae

* Colpomenia
* Hydroclathrus
* Petalonia
* Rosenvingea
* Scytosiphon
* Coelocladia
* Phaeostroma

### Scytothamnales
#### Scytothamnaceae

* Asteronema
* Scytothamnus
* Stereocladon

#### Splachnidiaceae

* Splachnidium

### Sporochnales
#### Sporochnaceae

* Austronereia
* Bellotia
* Carpomitra
* Encyothalia
* Nereia
* Perisporochnus
* Perithalia
* Sporochnema
* Sporochnus
* Tomaculopsis

### Tilopteridales
#### Halosiphonaceae

* Halosiphon

#### Masonophycaceae

* Masonophycus

#### Phyllariaceae

* Phyllariopsis
* Saccorhiza

#### Stschapoviaceae

* Stschapovia

#### Tilopteridaceae

* Haplospora
* Phaeosiphoniella
* Tilopteris

### Incertae sedis

* Neoleptonema

#### Heterochordariaceae

* Analipus