Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Porphyrosiphon versicolor
Cianobacteria filamentosa, Filamentous cyanobacteria
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: Galapagos I.: (L. versicolor) Isabela (Taylor, 1945). Isabela (Silva, 1966). (P. versicolor) Europe, North America, Middle East (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.
- 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.