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Heterosiphonia crispella (C.Agardh) M.J.Wynne

Alga roja, Red algae

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Plantae

Phylum
Rhodophyta

Class
Florideophyceae

Order
Ceramiales

Family
Dasyaceae

Genus
Heterosiphonia

Species
crispella

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Callithamnion crispellum C.Agardh 1828, Dasya wurdemannii Bailey ex Harvey 1853, Heterosiphonia wurdemannii (Bailey ex Harvey) Falkenberg 1897 (Guiry & Guiry, 2021).

Origin: Native

Distribution

Distribution: Atlantic Islands, Europe, Caribbean, Western Atlantic, Africa, Middle East, Australia and New Zealand, Asia, America: Mexico, Belize, Brazil, Chile, Venezuela (Guiry & Guiry, 2021).

References

  • Dawson, E.Y. (1963) New records of marine algae from the Galapagos Islands. Pacific Naturalist 4(1): 1-23.
  • 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, Heterosiphonia crispella", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19046. Accessed 8 May 2025.