Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Johannesbaptistia pellucida
Cianobacteria, Cyanobacteria
Domain
Prokaryota
Kingdom
Bacteria
Phylum
Cyanobacteria
Class
Cyanophyceae
Order
Chroococcales
Family
Entophysalidaceae
Genus
Johannesbaptistia
Species
pellucida
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Hormospora pellucida Dickie 1874 (Guiry & Guiry, 2021). Note: Drouet 1938, p. 285 ; 1936, p. 16, figs. 3, 4, as /. primaria (Taylor, 1945:142)
Origin: Native
- 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.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Johannesbaptistia pellucida", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19086. Accessed 9 June 2026.