Fifth addendum to the synoptic review of red algal genera

Abstract

Abstract The fifth addendum to Schneider and Wynne’s 2007 “A synoptic review of the classification of red algal genera a half century after Kylin’s 1956 ‘Die Gattungen der Rhodophyceen’” is presented, covering the names of genus- and higher-level taxa added or modified since our fourth addendum (Bot. Mar. 62: 355–367). Since the original compilation, we have added 21 new genera in the first addendum, 27 in the second, 40 in the third and 58 in the fourth, demonstrating the increasing amount of genetic work over more than a decade. In this fifth addendum, we add 31 new genera, three new families, two new orders, and one new subphylum from the past three years, as well as listing four genera reinstated from synonymy based upon molecular sequencing studies.