Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Dictyota flabellata
alga parda, brown algae
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Chromista
Phylum
Ochrophyta
Class
Phaeophyceae
Order
Dictyotales
Family
Dictyotaceae
Section
Dictyoteae
Genus
Dictyota
Species
flabellata
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Dilophus flabellatus Collins 1901, Dictyota hesperia Setchell & N.L.Gardner 1924, Dictyota johnstonii Setchell & N.L.Gardner 1924 (Guiry & Guiry, 2021).
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Costa Rica: off Pto. Culebra, Panama: off Is. Secas (Taylor, 1945). Asia, Pacific Islands, America: Baja California, California, Gulf of California, Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Chile, Galapagos Islands, Temperate South America (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.
- 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.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Dictyota flabellata", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=1264. Accessed 25 May 2025.