Galapagos Species Database

The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.

Bostrychia calliptera (Montagne) Montagne

alga roja, red algae

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Plantae

Phylum
Rhodophyta

Class
Florideophyceae

Order
Ceramiales

Family
Rhodomelaceae

Section
Bostrychieae

Genus
Bostrychia

Species
calliptera

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Rhodomela calliptera Montagne 1840, Bostrychia pinnata J.Tanaka & Chihara 1984 (Guiry & Guiry, 2021)

Origin: Native

Status

IUCN Red List Category: Not evaluated

Distribution

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

Distribution: Galapagos I.: Punta Albermarle - Isabela, Academy Bay - Santa Cruz (Taylor, 1945). Isabela and Santa Cruz (Silva, 1966). Galapagos Islands (Miller & Garske, 2011). Caribbean, Western Atlantic, Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, America: Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Galapagos Islands, Guyana, Peru and Venezuela (Guiry & Guiry, 2021).

References

  • 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 unpublished manuscript, 49 pp.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, Bostrychia calliptera", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=1365. Accessed 31 October 2026.