Galapagos Species Database
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Ulvaria obscura var. blyttii
Cianobacteria, Cyanobacteria
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Chlorophyta
Class
Ulvophyceae
Order
Ulvales
Family
Ulvaceae
Genus
Ulvaria
Species
obscura
Subspecies
var. blyttii
Taxon category: Species with Infraspecific Taxa
Syn.: Ulva blyttii Areschoug 1850, Ulvaria blyttii (Areschoug) J.Agardh 1883, Monostroma fuscum var. blyttii (Areschoug) Batters 1902, Monostroma fuscum f. blyttii (Areschoug) Collins 1903, Ulvaria blyttii (Areschoug) Vinogradova 1967, Gloeocapsa dimidiata (Kützing) Drouet & Daily 1948, Anacystis dimidiata (Kützing) Drouet & Daily 1952 (Guiry & Guiry, 2021).
Origin: Native
Distribution: (A. dimidiata) Isabela (Silva, 1966). Europe, North and South America, Africa, Asutralia 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
- 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.
- 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.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Ulvaria obscura var. blyttii", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19058. Accessed 31 October 2026.