Galapagos Species Database

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Amphiroa polymorpha Me.Lemoine

alga roja, red algae

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Plantae

Phylum
Rhodophyta

Class
Florideophyceae

Order
Corallinales

Family
Lithophyllaceae

Section
Amphiroeae

Genus
Amphiroa

Species
polymorpha

Taxon category: Accepted

Galapagos. Ile Charles, Post Office Bay, au-dessous du niveau de la basse mer (Lemoine, 1929: 74)

Origin: Native

Status

IUCN Red List Category: Not evaluated

Distribution

Distribution: America: Gulf California, Mexico, Costa Rica and Galapagos Islands (Guiry & Guiry, 2021). Galapagos I. Post Office Bay - Floreana (Lemoine, 1929). Floreana (Silva, 1966). Galapagos Islands (Miller & Garske, 2011).

References

  • 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 unpublished manuscript, 49 pp.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.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Amphiroa polymorpha", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=8219. Accessed 31 October 2026.