Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Flabellum (Flabellum) galapagense
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Cnidaria
Class
Anthozoa
Order
Scleractinia
Family
Flabellidae
Genus
Flabellum (Flabellum)
Species
galapagense
Taxon category: Accepted
Synm.: Flabellum gallapagense Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 alternate representation (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
- Cairns, S.D. (1991) A revision of the Ahermatypic Scleractinia of the Galápagos and the Cocos Islands. Smithsonian Contrib. Zool. 504: 1-44.
- 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, Flabellum (Flabellum) galapagense", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20480. Accessed 5 November 2026.