Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Sargassum templetonii
alga parda, brown algae
INA (2021) UC University Herbarium has a Collection of Marine Algal TYPE of Galapagos I. UC1918202 , CAS249327.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Chromista
Phylum
Ochrophyta
Class
Phaeophyceae
Order
Fucales
Family
Sargassaceae
Genus
Sargassum
Species
templetonii
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Endemic
Distribution: Galapagos I.: Punta Albermarle, Punta Cristóbal (Pt. Christopher) - Isabela (Taylor, 1945). Isabela, Floreana and San Cristobal (Silva, 1966).
- Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.
- 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. (2013) AlgaeBase World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org
- Guiry, M.D. Guiry, G.M. (2021) AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org
- 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.
- Miller, K.A. Garske, L.E. (2011) Galápagos Seaweeds. unpublished manuscript, 49 pp.
- Pedroche, P.F. Silva, P.C., Aguilar Rosas, L.E., Dreckmann, K.M. & Aguilar Rosas, R. (2008) Catálogo de las algas benthónicas del Pacífico de México II. Phaeophycota. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana and University of California Berkeley, Mexicali & Berkeley, pp. [i-viii], i-vi, 15-146.
- Setchell, W.A. (1937) The Templeton Crocker Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences, 1932. No. 34. Report on the Sargassums. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, ser. 4, 22(5): 127-158, pls 28-33.
- 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, Sargassum templetonii", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=1304. Accessed 3 April 2026.