Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Species with Infraspecific Taxa

Type locality: Piccone in Piccone & Grunow 1886, p. 60, from I. San Cristobal, Ecuador; Archipielago de Colon, I. Rabida, Hassler Expedition no. 1009, June 1876. Ibid., near high tide line on rocks near Black Beach Anchorage, I. Santa Maria, nos. 34-263, 34-267C, 18 Jan. 1934. (Taylor 1945: 240).

Origin: Endemic

Distribution: Galapagos Islands: Rabida and Black Beach Anchorage, Floreana (Taylor, 1945). Floreana, San Cristobal and Rabida (Silva, 966). Galapagos Islands (Miller & Garske, 2011).

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• 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
• 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 unpublished manuscript, 49 pp.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.