Galapagos Species Database

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Callithamnion epiphyticum W.R. Taylor

alga roja, red algae

Taxonomy

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

Status

Data deficient

Distribution

Distribution: Galapagos I.: Islet Gardner Bay - Española (Taylor, 1945). Floreana (Silva, 1966).

References

  • 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 unpublished manuscript, 49 pp.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.