Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Amphiroa crustiformis
alga roja, Red algae
INA (2021) UC University Herbarium has a Collection of Marine Algal TYPE of Galapagos I. UC1839095 , AHFH74610.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Rhodophyta
Class
Florideophyceae
Order
Corallinales
Family
Lithophyllaceae
Section
Amphiroeae
Genus
Amphiroa
Species
crustiformis
Taxon category: Accepted
TYPE: E. Y. Dawson 22118, February 6, 1962, in Herb. Allan Hancock Foundation. TYPE LOCALITY: On intertidal rocks at about -0.5 foot tide level, reef west of abandoned packing plant, Wreck Bay, San Cristobal Island, Galapagos (Dawson, 1963:7).
Origin: Endemic
Distribution: Galapagos Islands: Wreck Bay- San Cristobal (Dawson, 1963). San Cristobal (Silva, 1966). Galapagos Islands (Miller & Garske, 2011).
- 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.
- INA (2021) Index Nominum Algarum, University Herbarium, University of California, Berkeley. Compiled by Paul Silva. Available online at http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/CPD/. Page last update February 05, 2020.
- 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 unpublished manuscript, 49 pp.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, Amphiroa crustiformis", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=8214. Accessed 3 November 2026.