Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Ceramium cimbricum
alga roja, red algae
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Rhodophyta
Class
Florideophyceae
Order
Ceramiales
Family
Ceramiaceae
Section
Ceramieae
Genus
Ceramium
Species
cimbricum
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Ceramium fastigiatum Harvey 1834, Gongroceras fastigiatum (Harvey) Kützing 1842, Ceramium elegans var. fastigiatum Celan & Serbanescu 1959, Ceramium fastigiramosum S.M.Boo & I.K.Lee 1985 (Guiry & Guiry, 2021).
Origin: Native
Distribution: Atlantic Islands, Europe, Caribbean, Africa, Indian Ocena, Middle East, Asia, Australia nad New Zealand, America: Alaska, Florida, Mexico, Texas, Colombia, Galapagos Islands and 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
- 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.
- 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, Ceramium cimbricum", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=11441. Accessed 3 November 2026.