Sporolithon
Scientific classification
(unranked):	Archaeplastida
Division:	Rhodophyta
Class:	Florideophyceae
Order:	Sporolithales
Family:	Sporolithaceae
Genus:	Sporolithon Heydrich, 1897
Species
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Sporolithon is a genus of red coralline algae in the family Sporolithaceae, in the order Corallinales.^[1]

Species

the World Register of Marine Species includes the following species in the genus:-^[2]

• Sporolithon africanum (Foslie) J.Afonso-Carillo, 1986
• Sporolithon australasicum (Foslie) N.Yamaguishi-Tomita ex M.J.Wynne, 1986
• Sporolithon crassiramosum (Pilger) P.C.Silva, 1996
• Sporolithon crassum Heydrich, 1897
• Sporolithon durum (Foslie) R.A.Townsend & Woelkerling, 1995
• Sporolithon elevatum M.C.Henriques & R.Riosmena-Rodriguez, 2014
• Sporolithon episoredion (Adey, Townsend & Boykins) Verheij, 1992
• Sporolithon episporum (M.A.Howe) E.Y.Dawson, 1960
• Sporolithon erythraeum (Rothpletz) Kylin, 1956
• Sporolithon howei (Lemoine) N.Yamaguishi-Tomita ex M.J.Wynne, 1986
• Sporolithon indicum V.Krishnamurthy & Jayagopal, 1987
• Sporolithon lemoinei (Weber-van Bosse) Verheij, 1993
• Sporolithon liberum (M.Lemoine) J.Aguirre & J.C.Braga, 1998
• Sporolithon mediterraneum Heydrich, 1899
• Sporolithon mesophoticum J.Richards, P.W.Gabrielson & C.W.Schneider, 2018
• Sporolithon molle (Heydrich) Heydrich, 1897
• Sporolithon pacificum E.Y.Dawson, 1960
• Sporolithon ptychoides Heydrich, 1897
• Sporolithon schmidtii (Foslie) G.D.Gordon, Masaki & Akioka, 1976
• Sporolithon sibogae (Weber-van Bosse & Foslie) P.C.Silva, 1987
• Sporolithon stefaninii (Raineri) P.C.Silva, 1996
• Sporolithon tenue R.G.Bahia, G.M.Amado-Filho, G.W.Maneveldt & W.H.Adey, 2013
• Sporolithon timorense (Foslie) P.C.Silva, 1987

References