Mastophoroideae

Mastophoroideae
Scientific classification
Phylum: Rhodophyta
Class: Florideophyceae
Order: Corallinales
Family: Corallinaceae
Subfamily: Mastophoroideae
Genera[1]
  • Hydrolithon
  • Lesueuria
  • Lithoporella
  • Mastophora
  • Metamastophora
  • Neogoniolithon
  • Pneophyllum
  • Spongites

The Mastophoroideae are a subfamily of Corallinaceaen Coralline alga with uniporate conceptacles.[2]

  1. ^ 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.  edit
  2. ^ Taylor, Thomas N; Taylor, Edith L; Krings, Michael (2009). Paleobotany: the biology and evolution of fossil plants. ISBN 9780123739728. http://books.google.com/?id=_29tNNeQKeMC&pg=PA149&lpg=PA149&dq=Litostroma#v=onepage.