# Sporolithon

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{{Short description|Genus of algae}}
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| image = Album général des Cryptogames, Pl. 284.jpg
| taxon = Sporolithon
| authority = Heydrich, 1897
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = See text
}}

'''''Sporolithon''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of red [coralline algae](/source/coralline_algae) in the family [Sporolithaceae](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Sporolithon_africanum)''<small> (Foslie) J.Afonso-Carillo, 1986</small>
*''[Sporolithon australasicum](/source/Sporolithon_australasicum)''<small> (Foslie) N.Yamaguishi-Tomita ex M.J.Wynne, 1986</small>
*''[Sporolithon crassiramosum](/source/Sporolithon_crassiramosum)''<small> (Pilger) P.C.Silva, 1996</small>
*''[Sporolithon crassum](/source/Sporolithon_crassum)''<small> Heydrich, 1897</small>
*''[Sporolithon durum](/source/Sporolithon_durum)''<small> (Foslie) R.A.Townsend & Woelkerling, 1995</small>
*''[Sporolithon elevatum](/source/Sporolithon_elevatum)''<small> M.C.Henriques & R.Riosmena-Rodriguez, 2014</small>
*''[Sporolithon episoredion](/source/Sporolithon_episoredion)''<small> (Adey, Townsend & Boykins) Verheij, 1992</small>
*''[Sporolithon episporum](/source/Sporolithon_episporum)''<small> (M.A.Howe) E.Y.Dawson, 1960</small>
*''[Sporolithon erythraeum](/source/Sporolithon_erythraeum)''<small> (Rothpletz) Kylin, 1956</small>
*''[Sporolithon howei](/source/Sporolithon_howei)''<small> (Lemoine) N.Yamaguishi-Tomita ex M.J.Wynne, 1986</small>
*''[Sporolithon indicum](/source/Sporolithon_indicum)''<small> V.Krishnamurthy & Jayagopal, 1987</small>
*''[Sporolithon lemoinei](/source/Sporolithon_lemoinei)''<small> (Weber-van Bosse) Verheij, 1993</small>
*''[Sporolithon liberum](/source/Sporolithon_liberum)''<small> (M.Lemoine) J.Aguirre & J.C.Braga, 1998</small>
*''[Sporolithon mediterraneum](/source/Sporolithon_mediterraneum)''<small> Heydrich, 1899</small>
*''[Sporolithon mesophoticum](/source/Sporolithon_mesophoticum)''<small> J.Richards, P.W.Gabrielson & C.W.Schneider, 2018</small>
*''[Sporolithon molle](/source/Sporolithon_molle)''<small> (Heydrich) Heydrich, 1897</small>
*''[Sporolithon pacificum](/source/Sporolithon_pacificum)''<small> E.Y.Dawson, 1960</small>
*''[Sporolithon ptychoides](/source/Sporolithon_ptychoides)''<small> Heydrich, 1897</small>
*''[Sporolithon schmidtii](/source/Sporolithon_schmidtii)''<small> (Foslie) G.D.Gordon, Masaki & Akioka, 1976</small>
*''[Sporolithon sibogae](/source/Sporolithon_sibogae)''<small> (Weber-van Bosse & Foslie) P.C.Silva, 1987</small>
*''[Sporolithon stefaninii](/source/Sporolithon_stefaninii)''<small> (Raineri) P.C.Silva, 1996</small>
*''[Sporolithon tenue](/source/Sporolithon_tenue)''<small> R.G.Bahia, G.M.Amado-Filho, G.W.Maneveldt & W.H.Adey, 2013</small>
*''[Sporolithon timorense](/source/Sporolithon_timorense)''<small> (Foslie) P.C.Silva, 1987</small>

==References==
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