Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Hildenbrandia galapagensis
alga roja, red algae
Note: Apparently very abundant on rocks in the lower littoral and upper sublittoral belts (Setchell & Gardner, 1937).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Rhodophyta
Class
Florideophyceae
Order
Hildenbrandiales
Family
Hildenbrandiaceae
Genus
Hildenbrandia
Species
galapagensis
Taxon category: Accepted
Holotype: No. 236519, Herb. Calif. Acad. Sci., collected by J. T. Howell I(537) Apr. 26, 1932; Type locality: Charles Island, Galapagos (Setchell & Gardner, 1937). INA (2021) UC University Herbarium has a Collection of Marine Algal TYPE of Galapagos I. UC1918209 , CAS236519.
Origin: Endemic
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- 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.
- INA (2021) Index Nominum Algarum, University Herbarium, University of California, Berkeley. Compiled by Paul Silva. Available online at http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/CPD/. Page last update February 05, 2020.
- Setchell, W.A. Gardner, N.L. (1937) The Templeton Crocker Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences, 1932. No. 31: A preliminary report on the algae. Proceedings of the California Academy of Science, series 4, 22(2): 65-98, 1 fig, plates 3-25.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Hildenbrandia galapagensis", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=11631. Accessed 2 November 2026.