Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Type locality: Galapagos Islands (precise location unknown) (Woelkerling 1998: 337). Lectotype: collector not indicated; date not indicated but material forms part of the St George Expedition of 1923-1924 associated with C. Crossland; BM algal box collection 990 (Woelkerling 1998: 337). Notes: Isolectotype: BM, algal box collection 310. Isolectotype fragment: PC, unnumbered, General Herbarium box collection (non-fossil; filed in non-geniculate coralline type collections cabinet under basionym).

Origin: Endemic

Distribution: Galapagos i. at Isabela (Silva, 1966). Galapagos Islands (Miller & Garske, 2011). Galapagos Islands (Guiry & Guiry, 2021).

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