Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Type locality: West Indies (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 878)

Origin: Native

IUCN Red List Category: Not evaluated

Distribution: Galapagos I.: Darwin Station and inner east lagoon Tortuga Bay- Santa Cruz (Dawson, 1963). Santa Cruz (Silva, 1966). Atlantic Islands, Caribbean, Western Atlantic, Africa, Indian Ocean, Middle East,, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, America: Baja California Sur, Florida, Georgia, Mexico, North Carolina, el Salvador, Brazil, Galapagos I and Venezuela (Guiry & Guiry, 2021).

• Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.
• Dawson, E.Y. (1963) New records of marine algae from the Galapagos Islands. Pacific Naturalist 4(1): 1-23.
• 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.
• 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 unpublished manuscript, 49 pp.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.