Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Callithamnion epiphyticum
alga roja, red algae
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Rhodophyta
Class
Florideophyceae
Order
Ceramiales
Family
Callithamniaceae
Section
Callithamnieae
Genus
Callithamnion
Species
epiphyticum
Taxon category: Accepted
Type locality: Gardner Bay, I. Española, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador (Taylor 1945: 260). Type: W.R. Taylor no. 34-403; 31 January 1934; epiphytic on the coarser algae, dredged from 35-55 metres’ depth off an islet in Gardner Bay. Hancock Foundation (Taylor 1945: 260). Notes: Type tetrasporic and cystocarpic (Taylor, 1945).
Origin: Endemic
Distribution: Galapagos I.: Islet Gardner Bay - Española (Taylor, 1945). Floreana (Silva, 1966).
- 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.
- 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
- 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 unpublished manuscript, 49 pp.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, Callithamnion epiphyticum", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=8152. Accessed 30 October 2026.