Galapagos Species Database
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Chaetomorpha brachygona var. crassipellita
alga verde, Green algae
Type locality: Banks Bay, I. Isabela, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador (Taylor 1945: 53). Holotype: W.R. Taylor no. 34-133; 13 Jan. 1934; in a lagoon south of Banks Bay. Hancock Foundation (Taylor 1945: 53).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Chlorophyta
Class
Ulvophyceae
Order
Cladophorales
Family
Cladophoraceae
Genus
Chaetomorpha
Species
brachygona
Subspecies
var. crassipellita
Taxon category: Species with Infraspecific Taxa
Origin: Endemic
Distribution: Galapagos I.: Bahía Banks laguna - Isabela (Taylor, 1945). Isabela (Silva, 1966).
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- 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.
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- 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 unpublished manuscript, 49 pp.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, Chaetomorpha brachygona var. crassipellita", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=7596. Accessed 30 October 2026.