“…The aim of this work is therefore to compile a checklist of the benthic marine and brackish algae of the Galician coast, in order to compare it with similar catalogues from Britain and Ireland (Hardy & Guiry, 2003), Basque coast (Gorostiaga & al., 2004), Portugal (Ardré, 1970, 1971, Bárbara & al., 2003b, Araújo & al., 2003, Andalucía (Flores Moya & al., 1995a,b, Conde & al., 1996, Canary Islands (Haroun & al., 2002), Atlantic coast of Morocco (Benhissoune & al., 2001(Benhissoune & al., , 2002a(Benhissoune & al., ,b, 2003 and Mediterranean coast of Spain (Ribera & al., 1992, Gallardo & al., 1993, Gómez Garreta & al., 2001. We hope this work take a step forward the floristic knowledge of the warm-temperate NE Atlantic region and it could be a started point for another studies in this area.…”