Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Type locality: James Bay (station 3), James Island, Galapagos Islands (Woelkerling 1998: 382). Holotype: 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 no. 322 (Woelkerling 1998: 382). Notes: Holotype fragments: PC, unnumbered, General Herbarium box collection (non-fossil; filed in non-geniculate coralline type collections cabinet under basionym).

Origin: Endemic

Distribution: Galapagos I. at Santiago (Silva, 966). Galapagos Islands (Miller & Garske, 2011)

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