Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Phycodrina elegans
alga roja, red algae
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Rhodophyta
Class
Florideophyceae
Order
Ceramiales
Family
Delesseriaceae
Genus
Phycodrina
Species
elegans
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Phycodrys elegans Setchell & N.L. Gardner, P. pulchra W.R. Taylor, fide Wynne (1985). Type locality: Academy Bay, I. Santa Cruz, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Type: W.R. Taylor no. 34-306; 20 January 1934; tetrasporic, rare as dredged off Academy Bay. Phycodrys elegans: Holotype: No. 236493, Herb. Calif. Acad. Sci., collected by Albert Stewart (No. 2327) Feb. 23, 1905, Type locality: Chatham Island, Galapagos (Setchell & Gardner, 1937).
Origin: Endemic
Distribution: Galapagos Islands (Miller & Garske, 2011) Phycodrys elegans at Santa Cruz (Setchell & Gardner, 1937).
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- 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 unpublished manuscript, 49 pp.
- 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.
- 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.
- Wynne, M.J. (1985) Taxonomic delineation of Phycodrina (Delesseriaceae, Rhodophyta), a new genus endemic to the Galápagos. Systematic Botany 10(1): 73-80.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Phycodrina elegans", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=1331. Accessed 21 November 2025.