{{Short description|Genus of algae}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Album général des Cryptogames, Pl. 284.jpg | taxon = Sporolithon | authority = Heydrich, 1897 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text }}
'''''Sporolithon''''' is a genus of red coralline algae in the family Sporolithaceae, in the order Corallinales.<ref>{{cite WoRMS |author=Guiry, Michael D. |year=2019 |title=Sporolithaceae E. Verheij, 1993 |id=143692 |accessdate=23 May 2019}}</ref>
==Species== the World Register of Marine Species includes the following species in the genus:-<ref name=WoRMS>{{cite WoRMS |author=Guiry, Michael D. |year=2019 |title=''Sporolithon'' Heydrich, 1897 |id=144028 |accessdate=23 May 2019}}</ref>
*''Sporolithon africanum''<small> (Foslie) J.Afonso-Carillo, 1986</small> *''Sporolithon australasicum''<small> (Foslie) N.Yamaguishi-Tomita ex M.J.Wynne, 1986</small> *''Sporolithon crassiramosum''<small> (Pilger) P.C.Silva, 1996</small> *''Sporolithon crassum''<small> Heydrich, 1897</small> *''Sporolithon durum''<small> (Foslie) R.A.Townsend & Woelkerling, 1995</small> *''Sporolithon elevatum''<small> M.C.Henriques & R.Riosmena-Rodriguez, 2014</small> *''Sporolithon episoredion''<small> (Adey, Townsend & Boykins) Verheij, 1992</small> *''Sporolithon episporum''<small> (M.A.Howe) E.Y.Dawson, 1960</small> *''Sporolithon erythraeum''<small> (Rothpletz) Kylin, 1956</small> *''Sporolithon howei''<small> (Lemoine) N.Yamaguishi-Tomita ex M.J.Wynne, 1986</small> *''Sporolithon indicum''<small> V.Krishnamurthy & Jayagopal, 1987</small> *''Sporolithon lemoinei''<small> (Weber-van Bosse) Verheij, 1993</small> *''Sporolithon liberum''<small> (M.Lemoine) J.Aguirre & J.C.Braga, 1998</small> *''Sporolithon mediterraneum''<small> Heydrich, 1899</small> *''Sporolithon mesophoticum''<small> J.Richards, P.W.Gabrielson & C.W.Schneider, 2018</small> *''Sporolithon molle''<small> (Heydrich) Heydrich, 1897</small> *''Sporolithon pacificum''<small> E.Y.Dawson, 1960</small> *''Sporolithon ptychoides''<small> Heydrich, 1897</small> *''Sporolithon schmidtii''<small> (Foslie) G.D.Gordon, Masaki & Akioka, 1976</small> *''Sporolithon sibogae''<small> (Weber-van Bosse & Foslie) P.C.Silva, 1987</small> *''Sporolithon stefaninii''<small> (Raineri) P.C.Silva, 1996</small> *''Sporolithon tenue''<small> R.G.Bahia, G.M.Amado-Filho, G.W.Maneveldt & W.H.Adey, 2013</small> *''Sporolithon timorense''<small> (Foslie) P.C.Silva, 1987</small>
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Category:Red algae genera Category:Florideophyceae
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