Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Sargassum albemarlense
alga parda, brown algae
INA (2021) UC University Herbarium has a Collection of Marine Algal TYPE of Galapagos I. UC1884254 , AHFH7024, UC1884255 , AHFH209, UC1884256 , AHFH208.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Chromista
Phylum
Ochrophyta
Class
Phaeophyceae
Order
Fucales
Family
Sargassaceae
Genus
Sargassum
Species
albemarlense
Taxon category: Accepted
Type locality: Pta. Albemarle, Isla Isabela, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador (Taylor 1945: 118-119). Holotype: W.R. Taylor No. 34-105; 12 Jan. 1934; Hancock Foundation (Taylor 1945: 118-119). Notes: Drifted ashore on Pta. Albemarle.
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Galapagos I.: Punta Albermarle, Caleta Tagus - Isabela, drifting ashore on I. Bartolomé - Santiago (Taylor, 1945). Isabela and Santiago (Silva, 1966). America: Galapagos I. and Pacific Islands (Guiry & Guiry, 2021).
- Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.
- Garske, L.E. (2002) Macroalgas Marinas. In: Danulat, E. & Edgar, G.J. (eds.) (2002): Reserva Marina de Galápagos. Línea Base de la Biodiversidad. Fundación Charles Darwin/Servicio Parque Nacional Galápagos, Santa Cruz, Galápagos, Ecuador, p. 419-439.
- Guiry, M.D. Guiry, G.M. (2021) AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
- INA (2021) Index Nominum Algarum, University Herbarium, University of California, Berkeley. Compiled by Paul Silva. Available online at http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/CPD/. Page last update February 05, 2020.
- Miller, K.A. Garske, L.E. (2011) Galápagos Seaweeds. unpublished manuscript, 49 pp.
- Silva, P.C. (1966) Status of our knowledge of the Galapagos benthic marine algal flora prior to the Galapagos International Scientific Project. In: Bowman, R.I. (ed.): The Galapagos Islands Symposium of the Galapagos International Scientific Project. University of California Press, Berkeley, p. 149-156.
- Taylor, W.R. (1945) Pacific marine algae of the Allan Hancock Expeditions to the Galapagos Islands. Allan Hancock Pac. Expedit., 12, iv+-528.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Sargassum albemarlense", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=1081. Accessed 30 October 2026.