Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Lithothamnion phymatodeum
alga roja, red algae
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Rhodophyta
Class
Florideophyceae
Order
Corallinales
Family
Lithothamniaceae
Section
Lithothamnieae
Genus
Lithothamnion
Species
phymatodeum
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Lithothamnion pacificum (Foslie) Foslie, fide Guiry & Guiry (2010)
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- 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, Lithothamnion phymatodeum", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=11515. Accessed 3 November 2026.