Galapagos Species Database

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

Porphyrosiphon versicolor Anagnostidis & Komárek

Cianobacteria filamentosa, Filamentous cyanobacteria

Taxonomy

Domain
Prokaryota

Kingdom
Bacteria

Phylum
Cyanobacteria

Class
Cyanophyceae

Order
Oscillatoriales

Family
Microcoleaceae

Genus
Porphyrosiphon

Species
versicolor

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Lyngbya versicolor Gomont 1892, Phormidium versicolor Wartmann 1865 Microcoleus versicolor (Wartmann) Collins ex Forti 1907 (Guiry & Guiry, 2021).

Origin: Native

Distribution

Distribution: Galapagos I.: (L. versicolor) Isabela (Taylor, 1945). Isabela (Silva, 1966). (P. versicolor) Europe, North America, Middle East (Guiry & Guiry, 2021).

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.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Porphyrosiphon versicolor", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19095. Accessed 30 October 2026.