Higher Classification: > Kingdom Chromista > Subkingdom Harosa > Infrakingdom Heterokonta > Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Phaeophyceae > Subclass Fucophycidae > Order Ectocarpales > Family Chordariaceae > Genus Dictyosiphon

Dictyosiphon foeniculaceus (Hudson) Greville, 1830

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Dictyosiphon*	Greville, 1830	accepted genus name
*Coilonema*	Areschoug, 1872	synonym

Species group names

*Conferva foeniculacea*	Hudson, 1762	synonym
*Dictyosiphon corymbosus*	Kjellman, 1883	synonym
*Dictyosiphon foeniculaceus subsp. hispidus*	Kjellman, 1877	synonym
*Dictyosiphon hispidus*	(Kjellman) Kjellman, 1877	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: almindelig skægtang sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Japanese: ウイキョウモ sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Swedish: smalskägg

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	South, G. R.;Tittley, I. (1986). A checklist and distributional index of the benthic marine algae of the North Atlantic Ocean. untsman Marine Laboratory. St. Andrews, New Brunswick. 1-76.
additional source	Sears, J.R. (ed.). 1998. NEAS keys to the benthic marine algae of the northeastern coast of North America from Long Island Sound to the Strait of Belle Isle. Northeast Algal Society. 163 p.
additional source	Yamada, Y. (1928). Report of the biological survey of Mutsu Bay. 9. Marine algae of Mutsu Bay and adjacent waters. II. The Science Reports of the Tohoku University, Fourth series, Biology. 3: 497-534.
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	Linkletter, L. E. (1977). A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68: p.
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

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). Dictyosiphon foeniculaceus (Hudson) Greville, 1830. 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:145322