Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Antithamnionella breviramosa
alga roja, Red algae
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Rhodophyta
Class
Florideophyceae
Order
Ceramiales
Family
Ceramiaceae
Section
Dohrnielleae
Genus
Antithamnionella
Species
breviramosa
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Antithamnion breviramosum E.Y.Dawson 1949, Antithamnion breviramosum var. simplex E.Y.Dawson 1957, Antithamnion ternatum A.B.Joly & Cordeiro 1966, Antithamnionella simplex (E.Y.Dawson) Skelton & G.R.South 2007 (Guiry & Guiry, 2021).
Origin: Native
Distribution: Atlanctic Islands, Caribbean, Western Atlantic, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Paficic Islands, America: Florida, Gulf of California, Mexico, North and South California, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Colombia, Galapagos Islands, Venezuela (Guiry & Guiry, 2021).
- Dawson, E.Y. (1963) New records of marine algae from the Galapagos Islands. Pacific Naturalist 4(1): 1-23.
- 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.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Antithamnionella breviramosa", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=11437. Accessed 31 October 2026.