Galapagos Species Database

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

Trichocoleus tenerrimus (Gomont) Anagnostidis

Cianobacteria, Cyanobacteria

Taxonomy

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

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).

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, Trichocoleus tenerrimus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19100. Accessed 30 October 2026.