Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Corallina pinnatifolia
alga roja, red algae



Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Rhodophyta
Class
Florideophyceae
Order
Corallinales
Family
Corallinaceae
Genus
Corallina
Species
pinnatifolia
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Joculator pinnatifolius Manza (Guiry & Guiry, 2021). J. pinnatifolius Ecuador: Archipielago de Colon, in intertidal pools of a reef north of Tagus Cove, I. Isabela, no. 34-168, 13 Jan. 1934. Ibid., common on rocks in tide pools of the lower littoral, I. Santa Maria, no. 34-240A, 17 Jan. 1934 (Taylor, 1945: 199)
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Galapagos I. (J. pinnatifolius) Tagus Cove-Isabela, Florena (Tayloor, 1945). (C. pinnatifolia) Isla Tortuga -Isabela (Dawson, 1963). Isabela, Sta. Cruz and Floreana (Silva, 1966). Galapagos Islands (Miller & Garske, 2011). America: California, Gulf of Californai, Mexico, Galapagos I., Middle East and Pacific I. (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 unpublished manuscript, 49 pp.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.
- 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, Corallina pinnatifolia", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=8226. Accessed 31 October 2026.