Fucoids
Fucales
The Fucales (fucoids) are an order in the brown algae (class Phaeophyceae). The list of families in the Fucales, as well as additional taxonomic information on algae, is publicly accessible at Algaebase.
The class Phaeophyceae is included within the division Heterokontophyta. This name comes from the Greek word phaios meaning "brown" and phyton meaning plant. They include some of the largest organisms in the sea, but some are small and fine in structure.
9 branches of this order, most-observed first
rockweeds
familyFucaceae
Sargassum and Allies
familySargassaceae
Hormosiraceae
familyHormosiraceae
Durvillaeaceae
familyDurvillaeaceae
Seirococcaceae
familySeirococcaceae
Himanthaliaceae
familyHimanthaliaceae
Xiphophoraceae
familyXiphophoraceae
Bifurcariopsidaceae
familyBifurcariopsidaceae
Notheiaceae
familyNotheiaceae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Fucales in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 48219.