Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Tenarea erecta
Alga coralina, Coraline algae
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Rhodophyta
Class
Florideophyceae
Order
Corallinales
Family
Lithophyllaceae
Section
Dermatolitheae
Genus
Tenarea
Species
erecta
Taxon category: Accepted
Type locality: Tagus Cove, Albermarle Island, Galapagos Islands (Woelkerling 1998: 391).
Origin: Endemic
Distribution: Galapagos I. in Isabela (Taylor, 1945). Galapagos I. at Isabela (Silva, 1966). Galapagos I. in Tagus Cove -Isabela (Woelkerling, 1998).
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"Galapagos Species Database, Tenarea erecta", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19067. Accessed 31 October 2026.