Galapagos Species Database
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Agardhiella subulata
alga roja, Red algae
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Rhodophyta
Class
Florideophyceae
Order
Gigartinales
Family
Solieriaceae
Genus
Agardhiella
Species
subulata
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Sphaerococcus subulatus C.Agardh 1822, Gigartina subulata (C.Agardh) Greville 1830, Acanthococcus subulatus (C.Agardh) J.Agardh 1852, Gigartina tenera J.Agardh 1841, Rhabdonia tenera (J.Agardh) J.Agardh 1851, Rhabdonia baileyi Harvey ex Kützing 1866, Agardhiella tenera (J.Agardh) F.Schmitz 1897, Mychodea subulata (C.Agardh) Yendo 1911, Agardhiella baileyi (Harvey ex Kützing) W.R.Taylor 1970, Neoagardhiella baileyi (Kützing) M.J.Wynne & W.R.Taylor 1973 (Guiry & Guiry, 2021).
Origin: Native
Distribution: Galapagos Islands: (A. tenera) Caleta Tagus - Isabela, off Post Office Bay-Floreana, Islet Gardner Bay-Española (Taylor, 1945). Isabela, Floreana and Española (Silva, 1966). Galapagos Islands (Miller & Garske, 2011). (A. subulata) Caribbean, Africa, America: Florida, Gulf of California, Mexico, North Caroline, South Caroline, Texas, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Revillagigedo, Brazil, Colombia, Galapagos Islands, Peru and Venezuela (Guiry & Guiry, 2021)
- 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 unpublished manuscript, 49 pp.
- Taylor, W.R. (1945) Pacific marine algae of the Allan Hancock Expeditions to the Galapagos Islands. Allan Hancock Pac. Expedit., 12, iv+-528.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Agardhiella subulata", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=8291. Accessed 4 June 2026.