Galapagos Species Database

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Heterosiphonia crispella var. laxa (Børgesen) M.J. Wynne

alga roja, red algae

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Plantae

Phylum
Rhodophyta

Class
Florideophyceae

Order
Ceramiales

Family
Dasyaceae

Genus
Heterosiphonia

Species
crispella

Subspecies
var. laxa

Taxon category: Species with Infraspecific Taxa

Syn.: Heterosiphonia wurdemannii var. laxa Børgesen 1919 (Guiry & Guiry, 2021)

Origin: Native

Distribution

Distribution: (H. wurdemannii var. laxa) Galapagos Tortuga Bay-Santa Cruz (Dawson, 1963). Galapagos I. at Santa Cruz (Silva, 1966). Atlantic Islands, Europe, Caribbean, Western Atlantic, Africa, Indian, Middle East, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, America: Florida, Gulf of California, Mexico, North Carolina, Panama, Galapagos I., Venezuela (Guiry & Guiry, 2021).

References

  • 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.
  • Miller, K.A. Garske, L.E. (2011) Galápagos Seaweeds. unpublished manuscript, 49 pp.
  • 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.
  • Wynne, M.J. (1985) Concerning the names Scagelia corallina and Heterosiphonia wurdmannii (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta). Cryptogamie, Algologie 6: 81-90, 4 figs.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Heterosiphonia crispella var. laxa", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=11458. Accessed 30 October 2026.