Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Padina crispata
alga parda, brown algae
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Chromista
Phylum
Ochrophyta
Class
Phaeophyceae
Order
Dictyotales
Family
Dictyotaceae
Section
Zonarieae
Genus
Padina
Species
crispata
Taxon category: Accepted
Type locality: Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica (Taylor 1945: 100-101). Holotype: W.R. Taylor, no. 39-100; 26 Mar. 1939; infrequent on rocks near the entrance to the bay. Hancock Foundation (Taylor 1945: 100-101).
Origin: Native
- Taylor, W.R. (1945) Pacific marine algae of the Allan Hancock Expeditions to the Galapagos Islands. Allan Hancock Pac. Expedit., 12, iv+-528.
- 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, Padina crispata", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=1792. Accessed 31 May 2025.