Order Ectocarpales (brown algae)
Parent taxon: Phaeophyceae according to E. Taylor et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Chordites, Fucales, Fucus, Laminariales, Limnophycus, Staurofucus, Ectocarpus, Algites, Permopadina
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Ectocarpales in the database