Higher Classification: > Kingdom Chromista > Subkingdom Harosa > Infrakingdom Heterokonta > Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Phaeophyceae > Subclass Fucophycidae > Order Fucales > Family Sargassaceae

Treptacantha Kützing, 1843

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Treptacantha abies-marina (S.G.Gmelin) Kützing, 1843
Treptacantha algeriensis (Feldmann) Orellana & Sansón, 2019
Treptacantha barbata (Stackhouse) Orellana & Sansón, 2019
Treptacantha elegans (Sauvageau) Orellana & Sansón, 2019
Treptacantha mauritanica (Sauvageau) Orellana & Sansón, 2019
Treptacantha nodicaulis (Withering) Orellana & Sansón, 2019
Treptacantha sauvageauana (Hamel) Orellana & Sansón, 2019
Treptacantha squarrosa (De Notaris) Orellana & Sansón, 2019
Treptacantha susanensis (Nizamuddin) Orellana & Sansón, 2019
Treptacantha usneoides (Linnaeus) Orellana & Sansón, 2019

Literature

original description	Kützing, F. T. (1843). Phycologia generalis : oder Anatomie. Physiologie und Systemkunde der tange. [part 1]: [i]-xxxii, [1]-142, [part 2:] 143-458, 1, err.], pls 1-80.
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.
status source	Orellana, S.; Hernández, M.; Sansón, M. (2019). Diversity of Cystoseira sensu lato (Fucales, Phaeophyceae) in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean based on morphological and DNA evidence, including Carpodesmia gen. emend. and Treptacantha gen. emend. European Journal of Phycology. 54(3): 447-465.

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). Treptacantha Kützing, 1843. 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:604970