Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Lithophyllum alternans
alga roja, red algae
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Rhodophyta
Class
Florideophyceae
Order
Corallinales
Family
Lithophyllaceae
Section
Lithophylleae
Genus
Lithophyllum
Species
alternans
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Goniolithon alternans (M. Lemoine) Setchell & Mason (Guiry & Guiry, 2021); Type locality: James Bay, James Island, Galapagos Islands (Woelkerling 1998: 301). Lectotype: collector not indicated; date not indicated but material forms part of the St George Expedition of 1923-1924 associated with C. Crossland
Origin: Native
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- 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, Lithophyllum alternans", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=11483. Accessed 31 October 2026.