Sporolithaceae

Sporolithaceae
Temporal range: Mesozoic–recent
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Clade: Archaeplastida
Division: Rhodophyta
Class: Florideophyceae
Order: Sporolithales
Family: Sporolithaceae

The Sporolithaceae is the only known family of algae in the Sporolithales order.[1]

Sporolithaceae was originally placed within the Corallinales order,[2] until the creation of the Sporolithales order in 2017.[1]

They are differentiated from the Corallinaceae, by their formation of conceptacles with one or many pores.[3][4]

Species in the Sporolithales (and also the Sporolithaceae), have the characteristics of the Corallinophycidae,[5] but differs from other orders (Corallinales, Rhodogorgonales) in producing tetrasporangia within calcified sporangial compartments and in having tetrasporocytes that undergo cruciate cleavage.[6]

The Graticulaceae (fossil family) are structurally similar to the Sporolithaceae, but are Paleozoic and date back to the Wenlock (Silurian).[7]

  1. ^ a b Kamiya, M., Lindstrom, S.C., Nakayama, T., Yokoyama, A., Lin, S.-M., Guiry, M.D., Gurgel, F.D.G., Huisman, J.M., Kitayama, T., Suzuki, M., Cho, T.O. & Frey, W. (2017). Rhodophyta. In: Syllabus of Plant Families, 13th ed. Part 2/2 Photoautotrophic eukaryotic Algae. (Frey, W. Eds), pp. [i]-xii, [1]-171. Stuttgart: Borntraeger Science Publishers.
  2. ^ "Sporolithaceae, State Herbarium of South Australia". www.flora.sa.gov.au. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
  3. ^ Taylor, Thomas N; Taylor, Edith L; Krings, Michael (2009). Paleobotany: the biology and evolution of fossil plants. ISBN 978-0-12-373972-8.
  4. ^ Aguirre, J.; Perfectti, F.; Braga, J. C. (2010). "Integrating phylogeny, molecular clocks, and the fossil record in the evolution of coralline algae (Corallinales and Sporolithales, Rhodophyta)". Paleobiology. 36 (4): 519. doi:10.1666/09041.1. S2CID 85227395.
  5. ^ de Queiroz, Kevin; Cantino, Philip D.; Gauthier, Jacques A. (2020). "Corallinophycidae L. Le Gall and G. W. Saunders 2007 [G. W. Saunders], converted clade name". Phylonyms; A Companion to the PhyloCode (1st ed.). CRC Press.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference Algaebase was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ Brooke, C.; Riding, R. (1998). "Ordovician and Silurian coralline red algae". Lethaia. 31 (3): 185. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.1998.tb00506.x.