Corallina

Corallina is a genus of red seaweeds with hard, abrasive calcareous skeletons in the family Corallinaceae. They are stiff, branched plants with articulations.

Corallina
Corallina pinnatifolia
Scientific classification
(unranked): Archaeplastida
Division: Rhodophyta
Class: Florideophyceae
Order: Corallinales
Family: Corallinaceae
Genus: Corallina
Linnaeus, 1758 [1]

Species[2]
  1. Corallina aberrans (Yendo) K.R.Hind & G.W.Saunders
  2. Corallina abundans Me.Lemoine
  3. Corallina arbuscula Postels & Ruprecht
  4. Corallina armata J.D.Hooker & Harvey
  5. Corallina bathybentha E.Y.Dawson
  6. Corallina berteroi Montagne ex Kützing
  7. Corallina bifurca Kützing
  8. Corallina binangonensis Ishijima
  9. Corallina confusa Yendo
  10. Corallina cossmannii Me.Lemoine
  11. Corallina crassisima (Yendo) K.Hind & G.W.Saunders
  12. Corallina declinata (Yendo) K.Hind & G.W.Saunders
  13. Corallina ferreyrae E.Y.Dawson, Acleto & Foldvik
  14. Corallina goughensis Y.M.Chamberlain
  15. Corallina hombronii (Montagne) Montagne ex Kützing
  16. Corallina maxima (Yendo) K.R.Hind & G.W.Saunders
  17. Corallina melobesioides (Segawa) Martone, S.C.Lindstrom, K.A.Miller & P.W.Gabrielson
  18. Corallina microptera Montagne
  19. Corallina muscoides Kützing
  20. Corallina officinalis Linnaeus - type
  21. Corallina panizzoi R.Schnetter & U.Richter
  22. Corallina pilulifera Postels & Ruprecht
  23. Corallina pinnatifolia (Manza) E.Y.Dawson
  24. Corallina polysticha E.Y.Dawson
  25. Corallina rigida Kützing
  26. Corallina sachalinensis Klochkova
  27. Corallina sandwicensis Reinbold
  28. Corallina vancouveriensis Yendo

References
  1. World Register of Marine Species
  2. Algaebase Retrieved on 27 September 2014.
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