Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Gelidium pusillum
alga roja, red algae
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Rhodophyta
Class
Florideophyceae
Order
Gelidiales
Family
Gelidiaceae
Genus
Gelidium
Species
pusillum
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Kaliformia pusilla (Stackhouse) Stackhouse, Fucus pusillus Stackhouse 1795 Chondria pusilla (Stackhouse) W.J.Hooker 1821, Acrocarpus pusillus (Stackhouse) Kützing 1849, Fucus hetaerophyllus Clemente 1807, Gelidium repens Okamura 1899 (Guiry & Guiry, 2021).
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Mexico: Is. Revillagigedo, Braithwaite Bay, I. Soccoro, Oaxaca, Ba. Tangola-Tangola; Costa Rica: Golfo Dulce; Panama: Bahia de Panama, I. Taboga (Taylor, 1945). Galapagos I. at Isabela (Silva, 1966). Galapagos Islands (Miller & Garske, 2011).
- 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. (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.
- Miller, K.A. Garske, L.E. (2011) Galápagos Seaweeds. unpublished manuscript, 49 pp.
- 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, Gelidium pusillum", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=1339. Accessed 26 May 2026.