Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Capillaria crinalis (Hare ex Turner) Stackhouse 1816, Fucus crinalis Hare ex Turner 1819, Gelidium corneum var. crinale (Turner) Greville 1830, Acrocarpus crinalis (Turner) Kützing 1843, Acrocarpus spinescens Kützing 1843, Gelidium spinescens (Kützing) Trevisan 1845, Acrocarpus delicatulus Kützing 1868 Gelidium crinale f. spinescens (Kützing) Ardissone 1875, Gelidium crinale var. spinescens (Kützing) Schiffner 1933 (Guiry & Guiry, 2021). Reported from I. Santa Maria on the basis of Piccone 1889, p. 39. (Taylor, 1945:155)

Origin: Native

IUCN Red List Category: Not evaluated

Distribution: Floreana (Silva, 1966). Galapagos Islands (Miller & Garske, 2011). Atlantic Islands, Europe, Caribbean, Africa, Asia, Middle East, Antartic and Artic Islands, America: Connecticut, Florida, Gulf of California, Massachusetts, Mexico, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Galapagos I. Perú, Uruguay (Guiry & Guiry, 2021)

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• 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.
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• 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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