Galapagos Species Database

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

Acrochaetium crassipes (Børgesen) Børgesen

Alga roja, Red algae

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Plantae

Phylum
Rhodophyta

Class
Florideophyceae

Order
Acrochaetiales

Family
Acrochaetiaceae

Genus
Acrochaetium

Species
crassipes

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Chantransia crassipes Børgesen 1909, Kylinia crassipes (Børgesen) Kylin 1944 Chromastrum crassipes (Børgesen) Papenfuss 1945, Audouinella crassipes (Børgesen) Garbary 1979, Acrochaetium crassipes var. typicum Børgesen 1915 (Guiry & Guiry, 2021)

Origin: Native

Distribution

Distribution: Galapagos I.: (K. crassipes) Academy Bay-Santa Cruz (Dawson, 1963). Santa Cruz (Silva, 1966). (A. cassipes) Atlantic Islands, Europe, Western Atlanctic, Africa, Indian Ocean, Middle East, Asia, Pacific Islands (Guiry & Guiry, 2021).

References

  • 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
  • Dawson, E.Y. (1963) New records of marine algae from the Galapagos Islands. Pacific Naturalist 4(1): 1-23.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Acrochaetium crassipes", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19109. Accessed 2 July 2025.