Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Ochtodes crockeri
alga roja, red algae
Note: Growing on rocks. Five miles northeast of Webb Cove, Albemarle Island, May 22, Howell Nos. 395, 403, 424, 967; northeast side of Narborough Island, May 31, Howell Nos. 139, 876; June 2, Howell No. 829; southeast side of Narborough Island, June 1, Howell No. 147a (Setchell & Gardner, 1937).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Rhodophyta
Class
Florideophyceae
Order
Gigartinales
Family
Rhizophyllidaceae
Genus
Ochtodes
Species
crockeri
Taxon category: Accepted
Holotype: No. 236495, Herb. Calif. Acad. Sci., collected by J. T. Howell (139) May 31, 1932, Type locality: northeast side of Narborough Island, Galapagos (Setchell & Gardner, 1937). INA (2021) UC University Herbarium has a Collection of Marine Algal TYPE of Galapagos I. UC1862341 , CAS236495.
Origin: Endemic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Bahía Banks, Caleta Tagus - Isabela, Black Beach Anchorage - Floreana, Baltra (Taylor, 1945). Galapagos i. at Fernandina, Isabela, Floreana and S. Seymour (Silva, 1966).
- Taylor, W.R. (1945) Pacific marine algae of the Allan Hancock Expeditions to the Galapagos Islands. Allan Hancock Pac. Expedit., 12, iv+-528.
- 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
- 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.
- Farlow, W.G. (1902) Algae. In: B.L. Robinson: Flora of the Galapagos Islands. Proc. Amerc. Acad. Arts Sc. 38(4): 89-99, N.S. 14 (Papers from the Hopkins-Stanford Expedition to the Galapagos Islands)
- 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.
- Miller, K.A. Garske, L.E. (2011) Galápagos Seaweeds. unpublished manuscript, 49 pp.
- 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.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Ochtodes crockeri", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=1363. Accessed 1 July 2025.