Balliales

Balliales is an order of red algae belonging to the class Florideophyceae. The order consists only one family, Balliaceae.^[2] with only one genus - Ballia Harvey.^[3]

The genus of Balliales was circumscribed by William Henry Harvey in J. Bot. (Hooker) vol.2 on page 191 in 1840.

The genus name of Balliales is in honour of Anne Elizabeth Ball (1808–1872), who was an Irish botanist, amateur algologist, and botanical illustrator.^[4]

Species

As accepted by AlgaeBase;^[5]

• Ballia callitricha (C.Agardh) Kützing
• Ballia chilensis Decaisne
• Ballia crassa (C.Agardh) Kützing
• Ballia nana Kraft & G.W.Saunders
• Ballia pennoides Wollaston
• Ballia sertularioides (Suhr) Papenfuss
• Ballia vestium Harvey

References

L'ordre des Balliales est un ordre d'algues rouges de la sous-classe des Nemaliophycidae, dans la classe des Florideophyceae.

Liste des familles

Selon AlgaeBase (25 juil. 2012)^[1], Catalogue of Life (25 juil. 2012)^[2] et World Register of Marine Species (25 juil. 2012)^[3] :

• famille des Balliaceae H.-G.Choi, G.T.Kraft, & G.W.Saunders

Selon NCBI (25 juil. 2012)^[4] :

• famille des Balliaceae
  • genre Ballia

Notes et références

Balliales H.-G. Choi, G.T. Kraft, & G.W. Saunders, 2000, segundo o sistema de classificação de Hwan Su Yoon et al. (2006), é o nome botânico de uma ordem de algas vermelhas pluricelulares da classe Florideophyceae, subfilo Rhodophytina.

Táxons inferiores

Família: Balliaceae H.-G. Choi, G.T. Kraft, & G.W. Saunders, 2000

Gêneros: Ballia

Referências

• Choi, H.-G., Kraft, G.T. & Saunders, G.W. (2000). Nuclear small-subunit rDNA sequences from Ballia spp. (Rhodophyta): proposal of the Balliales ord. nov., Balliaceae fam. nov., Ballia nana sp. nov. and Inkyuleea gen. nov. (Ceramiales). Phycologia 39: 272-287.
• Yoon, H.S., Muller, K.M., Sheath, R.G., Ott, F.D. & Bhattacharya, D. (2006). Defining the major lineages of red algae (Rhodophyta). Journal of Phycology 42: 482-492.