Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Chondracanthus chauvinii
Alga roja, Red algae
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Rhodophyta
Class
Florideophyceae
Order
Gigartinales
Family
Gigartinaceae
Genus
Chondracanthus
Species
chauvinii
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Sphaerococcus chauvinii Bory 1828, Rhodymenia chauvinii (Bory) Greville 1830 Gigartina chauvinii (Bory) J.Agardh 1842 (Guiry & Guiry, 2021).
Origin: Native
Distribution: (G. chuvinii) Blank Beach Anchorange-Florena (Taylor, 1945). Galapagos Islands (Miller & Garske, 2011). South-east Asia (Guiry & Guiry, 2021).
- 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.
- Miller, K.A. Garske, L.E. (2011) Galápagos Seaweeds. unpublished manuscript, 49 pp.
- Taylor, W.R. (1945) Pacific marine algae of the Allan Hancock Expeditions to the Galapagos Islands. Allan Hancock Pac. Expedit., 12, iv+-528.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Chondracanthus chauvinii", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19052. Accessed 31 October 2026.