Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Codium brandegeei
alga verde, Green algae
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Chlorophyta
Class
Ulvophyceae
Order
Bryopsidales
Family
Codiaceae
Genus
Codium
Species
brandegeei
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Codium cervicorne Setchell & N.L. Gardner, fide Guiry & Guiry (2010)
Origin: Native
Distribution: C. cervicorne Ecuador: Galapagos I. near an islet in Gardner Bay- Española (Taylor, 1945). Española (Silva, 1966). America: Baja California, Gulf of California, Mexico, Galapagos I. (Guiry & Guiry, 2021).
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- 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.
- 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, Codium brandegeei", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=11359. Accessed 30 October 2026.