Galapagos Species Database

The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.

Plocamium pacificum Kylin

alga roja, red algae

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Plantae

Phylum
Rhodophyta

Class
Florideophyceae

Order
Plocamiales

Family
Plocamiaceae

Genus
Plocamium

Species
pacificum

Taxon category: Accepted

Acc. name: Plocamium coccineum var. pacificum (Kylin) E.Y.Dawson 1961 Plocamium cartilagineum subsp. pacificum (Kylin) P.C.Silva 1979 (Guiry & Guiry, 2021)

Origin: Native

Status

IUCN Red List Category: Not evaluated

Distribution

Distribution: Galapagos Islands: Wolf, Caleta Tagus, Punta Cristóbal (Pt. Christopher) - Isabela, Black Beach Anchorage - Floreana, Academy Bay - Santa Cruz (Taylor, 1945). Isabela, Santa Cruz, Floreana and Wolf (Silva, 1966).

References

  • Taylor, W.R. (1945) Pacific marine algae of the Allan Hancock Expeditions to the Galapagos Islands. Allan Hancock Pac. Expedit., 12, iv+-528.
  • 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.
  • Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.
  • Guiry, M.D. Guiry, G.M. (2021) AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org
  • 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.
  • Miller, K.A. Garske, L.E. (2011) Galápagos Seaweeds. unpublished manuscript, 49 pp.
  • 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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"Galapagos Species Database, Plocamium pacificum", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=8311. Accessed 17 June 2025.