Galapagos Species Database
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Aphanocapsa zanardinii
Cianobacteria, Cyanobacteria
Domain
Prokaryota
Kingdom
Bacteria
Phylum
Cyanobacteria
Class
Cyanophyceae
Order
Synechococcales
Family
Merismopediaceae
Genus
Aphanocapsa
Species
zanardinii
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Palmogloea aeruginosa Zanardini 1872, Gloeocapsa zanardinii Hauck 1877 Anacystis aeruginosa (Zanardini) Drouet & Daily 1948 (Guiry & Guiry, 2021).
Origin: Native
Distribution: (A. aeruginosa) Fernandina (Silva, 1966). Europe, North America, Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand (Guiry & Guiry, 2021).
- Guiry, M.D. Guiry, G.M. (2021) AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org
- 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.
- 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, Aphanocapsa zanardinii", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19056. Accessed 2 August 2025.