Keats, DerekWeitz, FransManeveldt, Gavin W.Faculty of Science2013-06-282024-10-302007/04/162007/04/162013-06-282024-10-302005https://hdl.handle.net/10566/16874Doctor Scientiae (Biodiversity and Conservation Biology)The purpose of this thesis was to provide a revision and characterization of the species of nongeniculate coralline algae previously ascribed to the now defunct genus Porolithon; to provide a modern account of selected taxa from the genus Hydrolithon and descriptions of taxa found to conform the generic delimitation of Hydrolithon and to use a phenetic cluster analysis to determine the taxonomic relationships between the various taxa ascribed to the genera Polorithon and Hydrolithon.enCoralline algaeClassificationRed algaeClassificationCoral reef ecologyThesisUniversity of the Western Cape