Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Harveylithon samoënse
Alga coralina, Algae
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Rhodophyta
Class
Florideophyceae
Order
Corallinales
Family
Corallinaceae
Genus
Harveylithon
Species
samoënse
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Lithophyllum samoënse Foslie 1906, Pseudolithophyllum samoënse (Foslie) W.H.Adey 1970, Hydrolithon samoënse (Foslie) Keats & Y.M.Chamberlain 1994, Lithophyllum illitus Me.Lemoine 1929, Spongites wildpretii Afonso-Carrillo 1988 (Guiry & Guiry, 2021).
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Atlantic Islands, Europe, Western Atlantic, America: Gulf of California, Mexico (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.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Harveylithon samoënse", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19125. Accessed 4 November 2026.