Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Holotype: Galápagos Islands: Isabela (Albemarle) Island, Diablas wetlands, 0.95731°S, 90.98685°W, 23 July 2012, Slide no. 20779 (species code—7876 MCCDRS) in Coll. Herbarium (CDS) of the Charles Darwin Foundation at Galapagos; Type locality: Floating moss, at the mouth of the stream to the lagoon in the Diablas wetlands—a permanent, brackish coastal lagoon network located at sea level on the south side of Isabela Island (Bak et al., 2017).

Origin: Endemic

Distribution: Galapagos Islands: Isabela in the Ls Diablas lagoon (Bak et al., 2017).

• Bak, M. Kociolek, J. P., Langebertalot, L.-B., Lopato, D., Witkowski, A., Zglobicka, I., Seddon, A. W. (2017) Novel diatom species from the freshwater discharge site of Laguna Diablas (Island Isabela-Albemarle) from the Galapagos. Phytotaxa. 311(3): 201-224. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.311.3.1
• Guiry, M.D. Guiry, G.M. (2013) 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.