Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Austrofolium howellii
alga roja, red algae
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Rhodophyta
Class
Florideophyceae
Order
Ceramiales
Family
Delesseriaceae
Section
Membranoptereae
Genus
Austrofolium
Species
howellii
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Hemineura howellii W.R. Taylor, fide Wynne (1988); Type locality: near Black Beach Anchorage, I. Santa María, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador (Taylor 1945: 275, 276). Type: W.R. Taylor no. 34-225; 17 January 1934; occasional in tufts on surf-beaten rocks. Hancock Foundation (Taylor 1945: 275, 276). Notes: Type: tetrasporic.
Origin: Endemic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: (H. howellii) Ecuador: Galapagos I. near Black Beach Anchorage-Floreana (Taylor,1945). Galapagos Islands (Miller & Garske, 2011).
- 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 unpublished manuscript, 49 pp.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.
- Taylor, W.R. (1945) Pacific marine algae of the Allan Hancock Expeditions to the Galapagos Islands. Allan Hancock Pac. Expedit., 12, iv+-528.
- Wynne, M.J. (1988) Austrofolium gen nov. (Delesseriaceae, Rhodophyta) from the Pacific coast of South America. Syst. Bot. 13(1): 111-119.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Austrofolium howellii", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=11459. Accessed 31 October 2026.