“…There is particular interest in several species of this family, being notable Dictyota menstrualis and Canistrocarpus cerviconis. Extracts of these algae, which are typically found in shallow waters and intertidal communities in subtropical and tropical areas (Sadeghi et al, 2019), exhibit a remarkably wide range of properties (Chen et al, 2018;Bogaert et al, 2020), effects of the following types: antiviral (Pereira et al, 2004;Abrantes et al, 2010;Vallim et al, 2010;Cavalcanti et al, 2011;de Souza Barros et al, 2016;Cirne-Santos et al, 2019;Cirne-Santos et al, 2020a;Cirne-Santos et al, 2020b;Ribeiro et al, 2021), cytotoxic (Jongaramruong and Kongkam, 2007;Caamal-Fuentes et al, 2014), antibacterial (Viano et al, 2009;Ibraheem et al, 2017;de Figueiredo et al, 2019;Rubiano-Buitrago et al, 2019), antitumoral (Gomes et al, 2015), anti-snake venom effect (Domingos et al, 2011), anti-inflammatory (Albuquerque et al, 2013;do Nascimento A ́vila et al, 2019), anticoagulant (Albuquerque et al, 2004;Camara et al, 2011;de Andrade Moura et al, 2011), antioxidant (Rodrigues et al, 2020), and antileishmanial (Dos . Thus, D. menstrualis and C. cervicornis were selected as the target of the present study because they are species with widely demonstrated different bioactivities and pharmacological potential.…”