Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Trichocoleus tenerrimus
Cianobacteria, Cyanobacteria
Domain
Prokaryota
Kingdom
Bacteria
Phylum
Cyanobacteria
Class
Cyanophyceae
Order
Oscillatoriales
Family
Schizotrichaceae
Genus
Trichocoleus
Species
tenerrimus
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Microcoleus tenerrimus Gomont 1892, Schizothrix tenerrima (Gomont) Drouet 1968 (Guiry & Guiry, 2021).
Origin: Native
Distribution: Galapagos I.: (M. tenerrimus) Fernandina (Taylor, 1945). Fernandina (silva, 1966). (T. tenerrimus) Artic, Middle East. Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Pacific Islands and America: Mexico, 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.
- 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, Trichocoleus tenerrimus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19100. Accessed 30 October 2026.