Galapagos Species Database

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Herposiphonia subdisticha Okamura

alga roja, red algae

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Plantae

Phylum
Rhodophyta

Class
Florideophyceae

Order
Ceramiales

Family
Rhodomelaceae

Section
Herposiphonieae

Genus
Herposiphonia

Species
subdisticha

Taxon category: Accepted

Type locality:: D. 22233a, epiphytic on Glossaphora, Academy Bay (Dawson, 1963:19) Syntype localities: Enoschima, Kanagawa Prefecture and “Boshu’, Chiba Prefecture, Japan (South & Skelton 2003: 738). Note: D. 22233a, epiphytic on Glossophora, Academy Bay (Dawson, 1963:19)

Origin: Native

Status

IUCN Red List Category: Not evaluated

Distribution

Distribution: Galapagos I. at Academy Bay-Santa Cruz (Dawson, 1963). Santa Cruz (Silva, 1966). Galapagos Islands (Miller & Garske, 2011). Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Pacific Islands, America: Gulf of California, Mexico, El Salvador, Chile, Galapagos I. (Guiry & Guiry, 2021).

References

  • 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 unpublished manuscript, 49 pp.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.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Herposiphonia subdisticha", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=8194. Accessed 31 October 2026.