Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Botryocladia darwinii
Alga roja, Red algae
Report a third species for the genus from the Galapagos, an endemic collected in deep waters off Isla Xarifa (vicinity Isla Española (Schneider & Lane, 2000).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Rhodophyta
Class
Florideophyceae
Order
Rhodymeniales
Family
Rhodymeniaceae
Genus
Botryocladia
Species
darwinii
Taxon category: Accepted
Holotype: Ca 500 m south-southeast of Isla Xarifa, Gardner Bay, off Isla Española, Galapagos, on basalt rock at 20-26 m, leg. 10 June 1999, J.S. Feingold [= CWS 99-6-2) by SCUBA, 6, (MICH); Isotypes, 9, d (CWS No. 4324 [l]; MICH [2]) (Schneider & Lane, 2000).
Origin: Endemic
Distribution: South-southeast of Isla Xarifa, Gardner Bay, off Isla Española, Galapagos I. (Schneider & Lane, 2000). Galapagos Islands (Miller & Garske, 2011).
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- Miller, K.A. Garske, L.E. (2011) Galápagos Seaweeds. unpublished manuscript, 49 pp.
- Schneider, C. W. Lane, C. E. (2000) A new species of Botryocladia (Rhodymeniales, Rhodophyta) from the Galapagos Islands. Cryptogamie Algologie, 21(2), 167-175.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Botryocladia darwinii", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19050. Accessed 31 October 2026.