Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Brachycladia marginata (Ellis & Solander) F.Schmitz, 1889, Corallina marginata J.Ellis & Solander, 1786, Galaxaura angustifrons Kjellman, 1900, Galaxaura canaliculata (Kützing) Kützing, 1849, Galaxaura clavigera Kjellman, 1900, Galaxaura frutescens Kjellman, 1900, Galaxaura marginata (Ellis & Solander) J.V.Lamouroux, 1816, Galaxaura marginata var. linearis (Kützing) J.Agardh, Galaxaura mauiana Butters, 1911, Galaxaura occidentalis Børgesen, 1916, Galaxaura stupocaula Kjellman, 1900, Galaxaura ventricosa Kjellman, 1900, Galaxaura veprecula Kjellman, 1900, Galaxaura yaeyamensis T.Tanaka, 1960, Halysium canaliculatum Kützing, 1843 Microthoe marginata (Ellis & Solander) Harvey, 1855, Zanardinia marginata (Ellis & Solander) J.Agardh, 1876 (Horton et al., 2021). Taxonomy note: In need of taxonomic revision (Wang et al., 2005: 685). (Guiry & Guiry, 2021). This name Dichotomaria marginata (J. Ellis & Solander) Lamarck was considered acepted of G. stupocaulon, fide Guiry & Guiry (2010)

Origin: Native

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

Distribution: Galapagos I.: (G. marginata) Isabela (Silva, 1966). (G. marginata var. linearis) Galapagos Islands (Miller & Garske, 2011). (D. marginata) Africa, Caribbean, America: Gulf of California, Mexico, Costa Rica, Brazil, Galapagos I. (Guiry & Guiry, 2021).

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• 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 unpublished manuscript, 49 pp.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.