Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Cladophora coelothrix
alga verde, Green algae
Darwin Station, Tortuga Bay in both case the plants were growing with Boodleopsis pusilla (Dawson, 1963:4).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Chlorophyta
Class
Ulvophyceae
Order
Cladophorales
Family
Cladophoraceae
Genus
Cladophora
Species
coelothrix
Taxon category: Accepted
Aegagropila coelothrix (Kützing) Kützing 1845, Conferva repens J.Agardh 1842, Aegagropila repens (J.Agardh) Kützing 1845, Conferva spongiosa Zanardini 1847, Cladophora repens Harvey 1849, Cladophora bryopsoides Zanardini ex Frauenfeld 1855, Siphonocladus modonensis (Kützing) Bornet 1889, Siphonocladus concrescens Reinbold 1898, Cladophoropsis concrescens (Reinbold) Wille 1910, Cladophoropsis peruviana M.Howe 1914, Cladophoropsis limicola Setchell 1924, Cladophora repens f. tenuis Bornet ex Hamel 1929, Cladophoropsis fallax Schiffner 1933, Cladophoropsis membrancea var. repens (Harvey) Phinney 1961 (Guiry & Guiry, 2021). In UC: Zaca Expedition, as Cladophoropsis limicola S. & G. Type locality: Tutuila Island, Samoa, leg. Setchell 1167, NY! Type locality: Golfo di Genova, Italy (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 771). Type: L No. 937. 278. 392 (van den Hoek 1963: 40).
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Galapagos I.: (C. peruviana) Darwin Station and Tortuga Bay lagoon in Santa Cruz (Dawson, 1963). Sta. Cruz (Silva, 1966). (C. coelothrix) Atlantic Islands, Europe, Africa, Caribbean, America: Gulf of Caifornia, Mexico, Texas, El Salvador, Panama, Argentina, Brazil, Galapagos I., Peru, Venezuela (Guiry & Guiry, 2021).
- 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
- Dawson, E.Y. (1963) New records of marine algae from the Galapagos Islands. Pacific Naturalist 4(1): 1-23.
- 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.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Cladophora coelothrix", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=11370. Accessed 2 May 2025.