Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Gymnogongrus durvillei
Alga roja, Red Algae
Common in the high littoral, intertidal on surf-beaten rocks in Floreana (Taylor, 1945)
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Rhodophyta
Class
Florideophyceae
Order
Gigartinales
Family
Phyllophoraceae
Genus
Gymnogongrus
Species
durvillei
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Ahnfeltia concinna J.Agardh, 1847, Ahnfeltia durvillei (Bory) J.Agardh, 1851, Ahnfeltiopsis concinna (J.Agardh) P.C.Silva & DeCew, 1992, Polyides durvillei Bory, 1828, Sphaerococcus concinnus var. immersus C.Agardh, 1822 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Galapagos Islands.: (A. durvillei) Rabida, Black Beach Anchorage- Floreana (Taylor, 1945). Floreana and Rabida (Silva, 1966). (G. durvillei) South America: Chile and Galapagos I. (Guiry & Guiry, 2021).
- Taylor, W.R. (1945) Pacific marine algae of the Allan Hancock Expeditions to the Galapagos Islands. Allan Hancock Pac. Expedit., 12, iv+-528.
- 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
- Howe, M.A. (1914) The marine algae of Peru. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club 15: 1-185, 44 figs, 66 plates.
- 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.
- Miller, K.A. Garske, L.E. (2011) Galápagos Seaweeds. unpublished manuscript, 49 pp.
- 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, Gymnogongrus durvillei", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19036. Accessed 1 June 2025.