Seaweeds are classified into three main groups based on their pigmentation and other characteristics, as red (
Rhodophyceae), brown (Phaeophyceae), and green (Chlorophyceae) (Chapman & Chapman, 1980), being this last group the one with the closest relationship to higher plants (Roesijadi et al., 2010).
Regeneration and vegetative propagation of the agarophyte Gracilaria debilis (Forsskal) Borgesen (
Rhodophyceae).
(ABM, Ca, Gracilariopsis,
Rhodophyceae, Quim, Ecol).
Recently, SPs isolated from Brazilian samples of Gracilaria birdiae (Gracilariales,
Rhodophyceae) exerted in vitro inhibitory potential on a chromogenic TG assay in diluted human plasma (Rodrigues et al., 2017a).
On the basis of pigmentation they have been classified into three subgroups: i) brown seaweed (Phaeophyceae); ii) red seaweed (
Rhodophyceae) and iii) green seaweed (Chlorophyceae).
(2001) senalan que se han registrado 238 generos y 651 especies de algas marinas benticas, siendo dominantes las
Rhodophyceae y Chlorophyceae.
Although also occurring in other living organisms (Aquino, Landeira-Fernandez, Valente, Andrade, & Mourao, 2005; Dantas-Santos et al., 2012; Chang, Lur, Lu, & Cheng, 2013), sulfated galactans (mainly carrageenan and agar) (
Rhodophyceae) (Estevez et al., 2008; Mourao, 2015), fucan or fuicodan (Phaeophyceae) (Leite et al., 1998; Pereira & Costa-Lotufo, 2012) and other structurally diverse SPs found in Chlorophyceae (Rodrigues et al., 2013; Rodrigues et al., 2014) are the main classes of these biomolecules present in nature.
Scinaia hatei is the red seaweed which belongs to the class
Rhodophyceae. The thallus size of S.
Carrageenans are sulfated polysaccharides obtained from red seaweeds (
Rhodophyceae).