Scientific Name	English Name	Distribution	Max. Length (cm)	Year
Acanthophora muscoides	Purple spiny sea moss	Western Indian Ocean and		1828
Acanthophora nayadiformis		Western Indian Ocean.
Acanthophora spicifera	Erect sea moss	Atlantic Ocean		1910
Alsidium corallinum	Coral corsican moss	Mediterranean Sea.	10 TL
Alsidium helminthochorton	Corsican moss	Mediterranean Sea.	5 TL	1843
Amplisiphonia pacifica		Northeast Pacific
Bostrychia montagnei		Western Central Atlantic
Bostrychia scorpioides		Western Central Atlantic
Bostrychia tenella		Indo-West Pacific and Wes
Bostrychia vaga		Antarctic Indian Ocean		1845
Bryothamnion seaforthii		Western Central Atlantic
Chondria tumulosa		Eastern Central Pacific		2020
Chondrophycus cartilagineus		Western Central Pacific
Cladhymenia coronata		Southwest Pacific
Colacopsis velutina		Antarctic Indian Ocean
Dasyclonium flaccidum		Western Pacific
Dasyclonium incisum		Indo-Southwest Pacific
Digenea simplex	Red seabroom	Indo-Pacific and Atlantic
Dipterosiphonia dendritica		Southeast Pacific
Dipterosiphonia parva		Southeast Pacific		1941
Endosiphonia horrida		Western Indian Ocean
Fernandosiphonia unilateralis		Southeast Pacific
Halopithys incurva		Mediterranean Sea.		1902
Herposiphonia dendroidea		Western Central Pacific		1968
Herposiphonia dendroidea var. dendroidea		Western Central Pacific		1968
Herposiphonia pacifica		Pacific Ocean
Herposiphonia parca		Western Central Atlantic
Herposiphonia pecten-veneris		Western Central Atlantic
Herposiphonia plumula		Eastern Pacific
Herposiphonia secunda		Indo-West Pacific and Wes
Herposiphonia secunda f. tenella		Southeast Pacific		1985
Janczewskia gardneri		Eastern Pacific
Laurencia brongniartii		Southwest Pacific
Laurencia caraibica		Western Central Atlantic
Laurencia claviformis		Southeast Pacific		1924
Laurencia congesta		Southeast Pacific
Laurencia decumbens		Questionable in Easter Is
Laurencia densissima		Southeast Pacific		1937
Laurencia elata		Indo-West Pacific.		1847
Laurencia filiformis		Western Central Atlantic
Laurencia flexilis		Western Central Pacific
Laurencia glandulifera		Western Central Pacific
Laurencia intricata		Western Indian Ocean and
Laurencia johnstonii		Eastern Central Pacific
Laurencia ligulata		Southeast Pacific		1963
Laurencia majuscula		Indo-West Pacific
Laurencia mariannensis		Western Central Pacific
Laurencia mediocris		Southeast Pacific		1937
Laurencia microcladia		Western Indian Ocean and
Laurencia minuta		Western Indian Ocean
Laurencia obtusa		Indo-Pacific, Atlantic an		1813
Laurencia oppositocladia		Southeast Pacific		1945
Laurencia pinnata		Western Central Pacific
Laurencia pinnatifida		Northeast Atlantic
Laurencia poitei		Western Central Atlantic
Laurencia snyderae		Western Indian Ocean		1945
Leveillea jungermannioides		Indo-West Pacific.
Levringiella microscopica		Southeast Pacific
Lophocladia lallemandii		Western Indian Ocean.
Lophosiphonia cristata		Western Central Atlantic		1901
Lophosiphonia obscura		Western Indian Ocean.
Lophosiphonia prostrata		Indo-West Pacific.
Lophurella caespitosa		Southwest Pacific
Lophurella hookeriana		Antarctic Indian Ocean
Lophurella patula		Antarctic Indian Ocean
Melanamansia glomerata		Western Central Pacific		1995
Neorhodomela larix	Black pine	Eastern Pacific
Neosiphonia ferulacea		Western Indian Ocean and		2004
Neosiphonia harveyi		Northeast Atlantic
Neosiphonia savatieri		Western Central Pacific
Neosiphonia sphaerocarpa		Pacific and Central Atlan
Odonthalia floccosa	Sea brush	Eastern Pacific
Odonthalia washingtoniensis	Toothed-twig seaweed	Eastern Pacific
Osmundea hybrida		Western Indian Ocean and
Osmundea pedicularioides		Western Indian Ocean		2004
Osmundea spectabilis	Sea laurel	Eastern Pacific
Palisada corallopsis		Western Central Atlantic		2008
Palisada intermedia		Western Indian Ocean		2007
Palisada patentiramea		Indo-West Pacific.		2009
Palisada perforata	Pepper dulse	Indo-West Pacific, Atlant		2007
Palisada surculigera		Western Central Pacific		2007
Palisada thuyoides		Western Indian Ocean		2009
Perrinia ericoides		Western Indian Ocean
Placophora binderi		Indo-Pacific.
Polysiphonia abscissa		Antarctic Indian Ocean
Polysiphonia anisogona		Antarctic Indian Ocean an		1845
Polysiphonia atlantica		Atlantic and Indo-Pacific
Polysiphonia brodiei		Western Indian Ocean and
Polysiphonia coacta		Western Indian Ocean.
Polysiphonia codicola		Western Indian Ocean
Polysiphonia crassicollis		Western Indian Ocean.
Polysiphonia denudata		Western Indian Ocean and
Polysiphonia elongata		Northeast Atlantic
Polysiphonia exilis		Western Central Atlantic
Polysiphonia flabelliformis		Antarctic Indian Ocean
Polysiphonia fucoides		Northeast Atlantic
Polysiphonia havanensis		Western Central Atlantic
Polysiphonia howei		Western Central Pacific
Polysiphonia japonica var. savatieri		Southeast Pacific		1986
Polysiphonia kampsaxii		Western Indian Ocean.
Polysiphonia lanosa	Tube weed	Western Central Pacific
Polysiphonia nigra		Northeast Atlantic
Polysiphonia opaca		Western Indian Ocean
Polysiphonia pacifica		Eastern Pacific
Polysiphonia platycarpa		Western Indian Ocean
Polysiphonia scopulorum		Pacific and Atlantic Ocea
Polysiphonia scopulorum var. villum		Western Central Atlantic		1968
Polysiphonia senticulosa		Northeast Atlantic
Polysiphonia sertularioides		Western Central Atlantic
Polysiphonia stricta	Pitcher siphon weed	Northern Atlantic
Polysiphonia subtilissima		Western Central Pacific		1840
Polysiphonia tuberosa		Western Central Pacific
Polysiphonia tuticorinensis		Western Indian Ocean
Polysiphonia upolensis		Western Central Pacific
Pterosiphonia bipinnata		Eastern Pacific
Pterosiphonia complanata		Northeast Atlantic
Pterosiphonia dendroidea		Southeast Pacific and Nor
Pterosiphonia disticha		Southeast Pacific		1941
Pterosiphonia gracilis		Eastern Pacific
Pterosiphonia paucicorticata		Southeast Pacific		1963
Pterosiphonia pusilla		Southeast Pacific		1941
Rhodomela confervoides		Northeast Atlantic
Rhodomela lycopodioides		Northeast Atlantic
Rytiphlaea tinctoria		Mediterranean Sea.
Spirocladia barodensis		Eastern Indian Ocean
Tolypiocladia calodictyon		Western Central Pacific		1952
Tolypiocladia condensata		Western Central Pacific
Tolypiocladia glomerulata		Indo-West Pacific.
Wrightiella blodgettii		Western Central Atlantic
Yuzurua poiteaui		Western Indian Ocean and		2010

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