**3.2 Species composition and distribution of green algae in the studied area**

Up now there are 36 species of green algae found on the shelf of the western part of Bering Sea and Commander Islands. The species list is given below in the table format (Table 2).


Marine Macrophytic Algae of the Western Sector of North Pacific (Russia) 195

*Porphyra pseudolinearis* Ueda **CI, K, O**  *Porphyra purpurea* (Roth) C. Agardh **CI, O, NR**  *Porphyra tasa* (Yendo) Ueda **O**  *Porphyra torta* Krishnamurthy **CI, NR**  *Porphyra variegata* (Kjellman) Kjellman in Hus **CI, K, O, NR Class Florideophyceae Order Hildenbrandiales Family Hildenbrandiaceae**  *Hildenbrandia rubra* (Sommerfelt) Meneghini **CI, K, O Order Corallinales Family Corallinaceae**  *Bossiella frondescens* (Postels et Ruprecht) Dawson **CI**  *Corallina pilulifera* Postels et Ruprecht **CI, K,O**  *Pachyarthron cretaceum* (Postels et Ruprecht) Manza **CI, K Family Hapalidiaceae**  *Clathromorphum circumscriptum* (Strömfelt) Foslie **CI, K,O, NR**  *Clathromorphum compactum* (Kjellman) Foslie **CI, K, O**  *Clathromorphum loculosum* (Kjellman) Foslie **CI, K, O**  *Clathromorphum nereostratum* Lebednik **CI, O**  *Clathromorphum reclinatum* (Foslie) Adey **CI**  *Phymatolithon lenormandii* (Areschoug) Adey **CI, OZ, K**  *Lithothamnion phymatodeum* Foslie **CI**  *Lithothamnion sonderi* Hauck **CI, OZ, K Colaconematales Colaconemataceae**  *Colaconema savianum* (Meneghini) R. Nielsen **O Order Acrochaetiales Family Acrochaetiaceae**  *Acrochaetium alariae* (Jónsson) Bornet **O**  *Acrochaetium arcuatum* (Drew) Tseng **OZ, K** 

**29** *Acrochaetium microscopicum* (Nägeli ex Kützing)

**32** *Meiodiscus spetsbergensis* (Kjellman) Saunders et

**33** *Rubrointrusa membranacea* (Magnus) Clayden et

**34** *Devaleraea compressa* (Ruprecht) Selivanova et

**35** *Devaleraea microspora* (Ruprecht) Selivanova et

**30** *Acrochaetium parvulum* (Kylin) Hoyt **K 31** *Rhodochorton purpureum* (Lightfoot) Rosenvinge **CI, K Order Palmariales Family Meiodiscaceae** 

**Family Palmariaceae** 

**K** 

**O** 

**CI** 

**K, O, NR** 

**K, NR** 

Nägeli

McLachlan

Saunders

Kloczcova

Kloczcova


Table 2. Empire Eukaryota kingdom Plantae subkingdom Viridiplantae division Chlorophyta
