Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Ulva caespitosa Withering 1776, Kaliformia opuntia (Goodenough & Woodward) Stackhouse, Fucus repens Lightfoot 1777, Fucus opuntia Goodenough & Woodward 1797, Clavatula caespitosa Stackhouse 1809, Clavaria caespitosa (Stackhouse) Stackhouse 1816, Chondria opuntia (Goodenough & Woodward) C.Agardh 1817, Lomentaria opuntia (Goodenough & Woodward) Gaillon 1828, Catenella opuntia (Goodenough & Woodward) Greville 1830, Catenella pinnata Harvey 1853, Catenella repens (Lightfoot) Batters 1902 (Guiry & Guiry, 2021).

Taxon origin: Native

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

Distribution: Galapagos Islands (Miller & Garske, 2011). Atlantic Islands, Europe, Western Atlantic, Africa, Middle East, Asia, Pacific Islands, America: Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama, Colombia, Galapagos Islands and Venezuela (Guiry & Guiry, 2021).

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• 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.
• Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.
• Guiry, M.D. Guiry, G.M. (2021) AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org
• 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.
• Miller, K.A. Garske, L.E. (2011) Galápagos Seaweeds. unpublished manuscript, 49 pp.
• 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.

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