Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Chondria tenuissima f. californica Collins 1899, Chondria californica (Collins) Kylin 1941, Chondria cuscutoides E.Y.Dawson 1946 (Guiry & Guiry, 2021). Type locality: Eureka, near La Paz, Lower California. (Setchell & Gardner 1924: 767).

Origin: Native

IUCN Red List Category: Not evaluated

Distribution: Mexico: Baja California, I. Cerros, Pto. Culebra (Taylor, 1945). Galapagos Islands (Miller & Garske, 2011). Galapagos Islands: Academy Bay and Tortuga Bay -Sta. Cruz (Dawson, 1963). America: California, Gulf of California, Costa Rica, Panama, Chile (Guiry & Guiry, 2021).

• 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.
• Guiry, M.D. Guiry, G.M. (2021) AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org
• 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 unpublished manuscript, 49 pp.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.