A checklist of the benthic marine macroalgae from the eastern Adriatic coast: IV. Rhodophyta 2: Ceramiales excluded

Abstract

           After the first part of the checklist of red algae (Rhodophyta: Ceramiales) the second part from the eastern Adriatic coast is presented, based on records published from 1948 to 2009. For geographic analysis the coast is divided into three parts: northern, central, and southern. A total of 219 macroalgal taxa at specific and infraspecific level are recognized. Most of them were recorded in the Middle (196), slightly less number in the North (165) and the lowest (109) in the southern part of the Adriatic Sea.