Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Lithophyllum frutescens f. galapagense
alga coralina
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Rhodophyta
Class
Florideophyceae
Order
Corallinales
Family
Lithophyllaceae
Section
Lithophylleae
Genus
Lithophyllum
Species
frutescens
Subspecies
f. galapagense
Taxon category: Species with Infraspecific Taxa
Syn.: Goniolithon frutescens f. galapagense Foslie, 1907 (Guiry & Guiry, 2021)
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Galapagos I.at Isabela, Santiago and S. Seymour (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.
- 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.
- 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.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Lithophyllum frutescens f. galapagense", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=16783. Accessed 31 October 2026.