Higher Classification: > Kingdom Chromista > Subkingdom Harosa > Infrakingdom Heterokonta > Phylum Ochrophyta

Phaeophyceae Kjellman, 1891

Rank: Class
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Class group names

*Phaeophycota*		synonym
*Phaeophyta*	R. Wettstein	synonym

Children

Choristocarpales
Cutleriales Bessey, 1907
Dictyosiphonales
Dictyotophycidae Silberfeld, F.Rousseau & Reviers, 2014
Discosporangiophycidae Silberfeld, F.Rousseau & Reviers, 2014
Fucophycidae Cavalier-Smith, 1986
Ishigeophycidae Silberfeld, F. Rousseau & Reviers, 2014
Phaeophyceae incertae sedis
Scytosiphonales Feldmann, 1949
Stschapoviales H.Kawai, 2015

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: bruinwieren sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

English: brown algae

Japanese: 褐藻綱 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Swedish: brunalger

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	Parker, S.P. (Ed.) (1982). Synopsis and classification of living organisms. McGraw Hill Book Company: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-07-079031-0. 1166, 1232 pp.