Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Gracilaria textorii
alga roja, red algae
G. johnstonii Mexico, Ecuador: Galapagos Islands off Tagus Cove - Isabela, Academy Bay-Santa Cruz, off Post Office Bay - Floreana (Taylor, 1945). Isabela, Santa Cruz and Floreana (Silva, 1966).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Rhodophyta
Class
Florideophyceae
Order
Gracilariales
Family
Gracilariaceae
Genus
Gracilaria
Species
textorii
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Sphaerococcus textorii Suringar 1868, Gracilaria vivipara Setchell & Gardner 1924, Gracilaria sinicola Setchell & Gardner 1924, Gracilaria johnstonii Setchell & N.L.Gardner 1924 (Guiry & Guiry, 2021).
Taxon origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Caribbean, America: Gulf of California, Mexico, Galapagos I, Peru, Venezuela, Asia, Australia and New Zealand (Guiry & Guiry, 2021).
- Taylor, W.R. (1945) Pacific marine algae of the Allan Hancock Expeditions to the Galapagos Islands. Allan Hancock Pac. Expedit., 12, iv+-528.
- 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. (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.
- 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.