Pylaiella (mung) is a genus of seaweed (brown algae) that can be a nuisance due to its ability to coat people, ropes, animals, and more when it blooms close to the shore under particular conditions.
Species The genus includes the following species: Pylaiella aquitanica Ruprecht, 1850 Pylaiella gardneri Collins, 1912 Pylaiella hooperi De Toni, 1895 Pylaiella littoralis (Linnaeus) Kjellman, 1872 Pylaiella nana Kjellman, 1883 Pylaiella penicilliformis Kjellman, 1906 Pylaiella petaloniae Noda, 1975 Pylaiella seriata Kuckuck, 2007 Pylaiella tenella Setchell & N.L. Gardner, 1922 Pylaiella unilateralis Setchell & N.L. Gardner, 1922 Pylaiella varia Kjellman, 1883 Pylaiella washingtoniensis C.C. Jao, 1937 References
Further reading
External links DeCew's Guide GBIF's Biodiversity Data Portal instead puts brown algae in Kingdom Chromista Cape Codder: We call it mung