| Description: | Original publication: Kützing, F.T. (1843). Phycologia generalis oder Anatomie, Physiologie und Systemkunde der Tange... Mit 80 farbig gedruckten Tafeln, gezeichnet und gravirt vom Verfasser. pp. [part 1]: [i]-xxxii, [1]-142 , [part 2:] 143-458, 1, err.], pls 1-80. Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus.
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							| Name History | Adjective (Latin), feathery (Stearn 1973). | 
						
						
						
						
												 
							| References | Draisma, S.G.A., Prud'homme van Reine, W.F. & Kawai, H. (2010). A revised classification of the Sphacelariales (Phaeophyceae) inferred from a psbC and rbcL based phylogeny. European Journal of Phycology 45(3): 308-326. | 
												
						
						 
						  | Type information: | Type speciesThis is the type species (holotype) of the genus Chaetopteris.
 BasionymSphacelaria plumosa Lyngbye
 Type informationType locality: Hofmansgave, Fyn, Denmark (Athanasiadis 1996: 199).
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