Galapagos Species Database

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Lithophyllum sancti-georgei Me.Lemoine

alga roja, red algae

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Plantae

Phylum
Rhodophyta

Class
Florideophyceae

Order
Corallinales

Family
Lithophyllaceae

Section
Lithophylleae

Genus
Lithophyllum

Species
sancti-georgei

Taxon category: Accepted

Type locality: Tagus Cove, Albermarle Island, Galapagos islands (Woelkerling 1998: 325). Holotype: Collector not indicated (material forms part of the St George Expedition of 1923-1924, associated with C. Crossland); June 1924; BM algal box collection 336 (Woelkerling 1998: 325). Notes: Holotype fragments: PC, unnumbered, General Herbarium box collection (non-fossil; filed in non-geniculate coralline type collections cabinet under basionym).

Origin: Endemic

Status

Data deficient

Distribution

Distribution: Galapgos i.: Isabela, Santiago, Santa Cruz, Floreana (Taylor, 1945). Galapagos I. at Isabela (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.
  • 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 unpublished manuscript, 49 pp.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.
  • Woelkerling, W.J. (1998) Type collections of non-geniculate corallines housed at the Laboratoire de Cryptogamie (PC). In: Woelkerling, W.J. (ed.): Non-geniculate coralline red algae and the Paris Muséum: systematics and scientific history. Muséum National d'Histoire naturelle / ADAC, Paris, p. 279-404.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Lithophyllum sancti-georgei", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=8240. Accessed 30 October 2026.