Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Ulvella viridis
alga verde, Green algae
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Chlorophyta
Class
Ulvophyceae
Order
Ulvales
Family
Ulvellaceae
Genus
Ulvella
Species
viridis
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Entocladia viridis Reinke 1879, Endoderma viride (Reinke) De Toni 1889 Entoderma viridis (Reinke) Wille 1890, Phaeophila viridis (Reinke) Burrows 1976, Acrochaete viridis (Reinke) R.Nielsen 1979 (Guiry & Guiry, 2021).
Distribution: Galapagos I.:(E. viridis) Isabela (Silva, 1966). (U. viridis) Atlantic Islands, Europe, Caribbean, Western Atlanctic, Africa, Asia, Anustralia and New Zealand, Pacific Islands, America:Gulf of California, Mexico, Perú (Guiry & Guiry, 2021)
- 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. (2013) AlgaeBase World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.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.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Ulvella viridis", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=17876. Accessed 1 November 2026.