Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Gayliella transversalis
Alga roja, Red algae
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Rhodophyta
Class
Florideophyceae
Order
Ceramiales
Family
Ceramiaceae
Section
Ceramieae
Genus
Gayliella
Species
transversalis
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Ceramium transversale Collins & Hervey 1917, Ceramium byssoideum Harvey 1853 (Guiry & Guiry, 2021).
Origin: Native
Distribution: Galapagos I.: (C. byssoideum) Wolf (Silva, 1966). (G. transversalis) Atlantic Islands, Europe, Caribbean, Western Atlantic, Asia, Australia and New Zeland, Pacific Islands, America: Florida, Mexico, Texas, Brazil (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, Gayliella transversalis", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19074. Accessed 31 October 2026.