Galapagos Species Database
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Parvocaulis parvulus
alga verde, Green algae
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Chlorophyta
Class
Ulvophyceae
Order
Dasycladales
Family
Polyphysaceae
Genus
Parvocaulis
Species
parvulus
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Acetabularia parvula Solms-Laubach, A. moebii Solms-Laubach, fide Berger et al. (2003).Basionym: Acetabularia parvula Solms-Laubach 1895: 29, pl. 2: figs. 3, 5. Syntype localities: "Tropical India'; Celebes, Indonesia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 893)
Origin: Native
Distribution: Galapagos I.: (A. moebii) south of Academy Bay- Santa Cruz (Dawson, 1963). Santa Cruz (Silva, 1966). (P. parvulus) Atlanctic Islands, Europe, Caribbean, Western Atlantic, Africa, Middle East, Asia, australia and New Zealand, America: Gulf of California, Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Panamá, Brazil and Galapagos Islands (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
- Dawson, E.Y. (1963) New records of marine algae from the Galapagos Islands. Pacific Naturalist 4(1): 1-23.
- Berger, S. Fettweiss, U., Gleissberg, S., Liddle, L.B., Richter, U., Sawitsky, H. & Zuccarello, G.C. (2003) 18S rDNA phylogeny and evaluation of cap development in Polyphysaceae (formerly Acetabulariaceae; Dasyladales, Chlorophyta). Phycologia 42: 506-561.
- 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.
- Miller, K.A. Garske, L.E. (2011) Galápagos Seaweeds. unpublished manuscript, 49 pp.
- 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.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Parvocaulis parvulus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=11369. Accessed 10 August 2025.