Higher Classification: > Kingdom Plantae > Subkingdom Biliphyta > Division Rhodophyta > Subdivision Eurhodophytina > Class Florideophyceae > Subclass Rhodymeniophycidae > Order Ceramiales > Family Rhodomelaceae > Tribe Streblocladieae

Melanothamnus Bornet & Falkenberg, 1901

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Melanothamnus collabens (C.Agardh) Díaz-Tapia & Maggs, 2017
Melanothamnus ferulaceus (Suhr ex J.Agardh) Díaz-Tapia & Maggs, 2017
Melanothamnus harveyi (Bailey) Díaz-Tapia & Maggs, 2017
Melanothamnus sphaerocarpus (Børgesen) Díaz-Tapia & Maggs, 2017

Literature

original description	Falkenberg, P. (1901). Die Rhodomelaceen des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. O. Koeltz science publishers Berlin. 754 pp. + 724 Taf.
basis of record	Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. searched on YYYY-MM-DD.
taxonomy source	Díaz-Tapia, P.; McIvor, L.; Freshwater, D. W.; Verbruggen, H.; Wynne, M. J.; Maggs, C. A. (2017). The genera Melanothamnus Bornet & Falkenberg and Vertebrata S.F. Gray constitute well-defined clades of the red algal tribe Polysiphonieae (Rhodomelaceae, Ceramiales). European Journal of Phycology. 52(1): 1-30.

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). Melanothamnus Bornet & Falkenberg, 1901. 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:369883