Galapagos Species Database

The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.

Tenarea erecta Me.Lemonie

Alga coralina, Coraline algae

Taxonomy

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

Distribution: Galapagos I. in Isabela (Taylor, 1945). Galapagos I. at Isabela (Silva, 1966). Galapagos I. in Tagus Cove -Isabela (Woelkerling, 1998).

References

  • 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.
  • Taylor, W.R. (1945) Pacific marine algae of the Allan Hancock Expeditions to the Galapagos Islands. Allan Hancock Pac. Expedit., 12, iv+-528.
  • Woelkerling, W.J. (1998) Type collections of non-geniculate corallines housed at the Laboratoire de Cryptogamie (PC). In: Woelkerling, W.J. (ed.): Non-geniculate coralline red algae and the Paris Muséum: systematics and scientific history. Muséum National d'Histoire naturelle / ADAC, Paris, p. 279-404.

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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.