Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Prionitis acroidalea
alga roja, Red algae
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Rhodophyta
Class
Florideophyceae
Order
Halymeniales
Family
Halymeniaceae
Genus
Prionitis
Species
acroidalea
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Grateloupia acroidalea Setchell & N.L. Gardner, Prionitis kinoensis E.Y. Dawson, fide Guiry & Guiry (2010)
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: (G. acroidalea) Galapagos Islands (Miller & Garske, 2011).
- Dawson, E.Y. (1944) The marine algae of the Gulf of California. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions 3: i-v +189-432, Plates 31-77.
- 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
- 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 unpublished manuscript, 49 pp.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.
- 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, Prionitis acroidalea", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=11546. Accessed 3 November 2026.