Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Melobesia brassica-florida Harvey 1849, Lithothamnion brassica-florida (Harvey) Areschoug 1852, Goniolithon brassica-florida (Harvey) Foslie 1898, Spongites notarisii var. insidiosus (Solms) ?, Spongites notarisii var. ptichoides (Foslie) ?, Lithophyllum notarisii f. insidiosum (Solms-Laubach) Foslie, Melobesia notarisii Dufour 1861, Lithophyllum insidiosum Solms-Laubach 1881, Lithophyllum fosliei (Heydrich) Heydrich 1897, Melobesia insidiosa (Solms-Laubach) Heydrich 1897, Choreonema notarisii (Dufour) Foslie 1898, Lithophyllum chalonii Heydrich 1899, Goniolithon frutescens Foslie 1900, Goniolithon notarisii (Dufour) Foslie 1900, Goniolithon fosliei (Heydrich) Foslie 1903, Goniolithon brassica-florida f. laccadivicum Foslie 1903, Goniolithon frutescens f. congestum Foslie 1903, Goniolithon notarisii var. insidosum (Solms-Laubach) Foslie 1904, Goniolithon laccadivicum (Foslie) Foslie 1904, Goniolithon notarisii f. ptychoides Foslie 1904, Lithophyllum frutescens (Foslie) M.Lemoine 1911, Lithophyllum notarisii (L.Dufour) Lemoine 1912, Lithothamnion notarisii (Dufour) Me.Lemoine 1915, Neogoniolithon frutescens (Foslie) Setchell & L.R.Mason 1943, Neogoniolithon laccadivicum (Foslie) Setchell & Mason 1943, Neogoniolithon notarisii (Dufour) Hamel & Me.Lemoine 1953, Neogoniolithon notarisii var. insidiosa (Solms-Laubach) Hamel & Lemoine 1953, Neogoniolithon notarisii var. ptychoides (Foslie) Hamel & Me.Lemoine 1953, Neogoniolithon notarisii var. chalonii (Heydrich) Hamel & Me.Lemoine 1953, Spongites notarisii (Dufour) Athanasiadis 1987 (Guiry & Guiry, 2021).

Origin: Native

Distribution: Galapagos I.: (N. frutescens ) Santa Cruz and Floreana (Silva, 1966). (N. brassica-florida) Galapagos Islands (Miller & Garske, 2011). Atlantic Islands, Europe, Caribbean, Western Atlantic, Africa, Indian Ocean, Middle East, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Pacific Islandas and America: Mexico, Brasil and Galapagos Islands (Guiry & Guiry, 2021).

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