Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Amphiroa compressa
Alga coralina roja, Coraline red algae
Specimenes recorded through dredged from 3.5 to 27 m depth in some locations of the archipelago
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Rhodophyta
Class
Florideophyceae
Order
Corallinales
Suborder
Eudermaptera
Superfamily
Forficuloidea
Family
Lithophyllaceae
Section
Amphiroeae
Genus
Amphiroa
Species
compressa
Taxon category: Accepted
Galapagos. Ile Albemarle, Tagus Cove, à marée basse. — Iles James, James Bay, station 1, dragué à 5-6 brasses (9-11 mètres) (Lemoine, 1929: 75). Lemoine 1929, p. 75, pi. 3, fig. 5 ; Farlow 1902, p. 93 (as A. dilatata) (Taylor, 1945)
Origin: Endemic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Galapagos I.: Academy Bay - Sta. Cruz, Wreck Bay – San Cristobal, Post Office Bay, Floreana, off Gardner I – Española (Taylor, 1945). Tagus Cove - Isabela and James Bay - Santiago (Lemoine, 1929). Isabela, Santiago, Santa Cruz, Floreana, Española and San Cristobal (Silva, 1966). Galapagos Islands (Miller & Garske, 2011).
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- 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.
- Lemoine, M. (1929) Les Corallinacées de l'Archipel des Galapagos et du Golfe de Panama. Archives du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle [Paris], sér. 6, 4: 37-88, 35 figs, IV pls.
- 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 unpublished manuscript, 49 pp.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, Amphiroa compressa", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=8213. Accessed 3 November 2026.