Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Symphyocladiella dendroidea
Alga roja, Red algae
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Rhodophyta
Class
Florideophyceae
Order
Ceramiales
Family
Rhodomelaceae
Section
Pterosiphonieae
Genus
Symphyocladiella
Species
dendroidea
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Polysiphonia dendroidea Montagne, 1837, Pterosiphonia dendroidea (Montagne) Falkenberg, 1901, Pterosiphonia tanakae Uwai & Masuda, 1999, Symphyocladia dendroidea (Montagne) Savoie & G.W.Saunders, 2016, Symphyocladia tanakae (Uwai & Masuda) Savoie & G.W.Saunders, 2016 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Galapagos I.: (P. dendroidea) Bahía Banks - Isabela, Academy Bay - Santa Cruz, Black Beach Anchorage, off Post Office Bay - Floreana (Taylor, 1945). Isabela, Santa Cruz and Floreana (Silva, 1966). Galapagos Islands (Miller & Garske, 2011). (S. dendroidea) America: Mexico, Peru (Guiry & Guiry, 2021).
- Garske, L.E. (2002) Macroalgas Marinas. In: Danulat, E. & Edgar, G.J. (eds.) (2002): Reserva Marina de Galápagos. Línea Base de la Biodiversidad. Fundación Charles Darwin/Servicio Parque Nacional Galápagos, Santa Cruz, Galápagos, Ecuador, p. 419-439.
- 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.
- Miller, K.A. Garske, L.E. (2011) Galápagos Seaweeds. unpublished manuscript, 49 pp.
- 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, Symphyocladiella dendroidea", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19105. Accessed 31 October 2026.