Galapagos Species Database

The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.

Titanoderma pustulatum (J.V. Lamouroux) Nägeli

alga roja, red algae

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Plantae

Phylum
Rhodophyta

Class
Florideophyceae

Order
Corallinales

Family
Lithophyllaceae

Genus
Titanoderma

Species
pustulatum

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Dermatolithon adplicitum (Foslie) Foslie, 1900Dermatolithon caspicum (Foslie) Zaberzhinskaya, 1967,Dermatolithon confinis (P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan), Boudouresque, Perret-Boudouresque & Knoepffler-Peguy, 1984, Dermatolithon hapalidiodes (P.Crouan & H.Crouan) Foslie, 1898, Dermatolithon hapalidioides (P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan) Foslie, Dermatolithon hapalidioides f. confine (P.Crouan & H.Crouan) Foslie, 1899, Dermatolithon hapalidioides var. confine (P.Crouan & H.Crouan) Foslie, 1899, Dermatolithon litorale (Suneson) Hamel & Me.Lemoine, 1953, Dermatolithon macrocarpum (Rosanoff) Foslie, 1899, Dermatolithon macrocarpum f. faeroensis Foslie, 1900, Dermatolithon macrocarpum f. intermedium (Foslie) Foslie ex De Toni, 1924, Dermatolithon pustulatum (J.V.Lamouroux) Foslie, 1898, Dermatolithon pustulatum f. ascripticium (Foslie) Foslie ex De Toni, 1924, Dermatolithon pustulatum f. faroense Foslie, 1900. Dermatolithon pustulatum f. similis (Foslie) Hamel & Me.Lemoine, 1953, Dermatolithon pustulatum var. macrocarpum (Rosanoff) Foslie, 1893, Epilithon pustulatum (J.V.Lamouroux) M.Lemoine, 1921, Fosliella ascripticia (Foslie) G.M.Smith, 1944, Fosliella intermedia (Foslie) G.M.Smith, 1944, Litholepis caspica (Foslie) Foslie, 1905, Lithophyllum adplicitum (Foslie) L.Newton, 1931, Lithophyllum hapalidioides (P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan) Hariot, 1889, Lithophyllum hapalidioides f. confinis (P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan) Foslie, 1905, Lithophyllum hapalidioides var. confinis (P.Crouan & H.Crouan) Me.Lemoine, 1921, Lithophyllum litorale Suneson, 1943, Lithophyllum macrocarpum (Rosanoff) Foslie, 1904, Lithophyllum macrocarpum f. faeroensis (Foslie) Foslie, 1905, Lithophyllum macrocarpum f. faroense (Foslie) Foslie, 1905 Lithophyllum macrocarpum f. intermedium (Foslie) Foslie, 1905, Lithophyllum pustulatum (J.V.Lamouroux) Foslie, 1904, Lithophyllum pustulatum f. ascripticia Foslie, 1907, Lithophyllum pustulatum f. ascripticium Foslie, 1907, Lithophyllum pustulatum f. intermedium Foslie, 1905, Lithophyllum pustulatum f. macrocarpum (Rosanoff) Foslie, 1905, Lithophyllum pustulatum f. simile Foslie, 1909, Lithophyllum pustulatum var. australe Foslie, 1905, Lithophyllum pustulatum var. macrocarpum (Rosanoff) Me.Lemoine, 1913, Lithothamnion adplicitum Foslie, 1897, Melobesia caspica Foslie, 1899, Melobesia confinis P.Crouan & H.Crouan, 1867, Melobesia hapalidioides P.Crouan & H.Crouan, 1867, Melobesia macrocarpa Rosanoff, 1866, Melobesia pustulata J.V.Lamouroux, 1816, Melobesia pustulata var. canellata Kützing, 1849, Melobesia simulans P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan, 1867, Melobesia verrucata J.V.Lamouroux, 1816, Tenarea ascripticia (Foslie) Adey, 1970, Tenarea caspica (Foslie) W.H.Adey, 1970, Tenarea confinis (P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan) Adey & P.J.Adey, 1973, Tenarea hapalidioides (P.L.Crouan& H.M.Crouan) Adey & P.J.Adey, 1973, Tenarea pustulata (J.V.Lamouroux) Shameel, 1983, Titanoderma ascripticia (Foslie) Woelkerling, Y.M.Chamberlain & P.C.Silva, 1985 (Guiry & Guiry, 2021).

Origin: Native

Distribution

Distribution: Galapagos I.: (D. pustulatum) Fernandina, Isabela and San Cristobal (Silva ,1966). (T. pustulatum) Galapagos Islands (Miller & Garske, 2011). Europe, America, Asia, Africa (Guiry & Guiry, 2021).

References

  • Farlow, W.G. (1902) Algae. In: B.L. Robinson: Flora of the Galapagos Islands. Proc. Amerc. Acad. Arts Sc. 38(4): 89-99, N.S. 14 (Papers from the Hopkins-Stanford Expedition to the Galapagos Islands)
  • 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. (2013) AlgaeBase World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org
  • 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.

You are welcome to download and use the information found in this page, acknowledging its source.

This page should be cited as follows:

"Galapagos Species Database, Titanoderma pustulatum", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=11505. Accessed 31 October 2026.