Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Champia parvula
alga roja, red algae
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Rhodophyta
Class
Florideophyceae
Order
Rhodymeniales
Family
Champiaceae
Genus
Champia
Species
parvula
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Champia intricata Cremades, Chondria parvula C. Agardh, Chylocladia parvula (C. Agardh) W. Hooker, Conferva intricata Clemente, Lomentaria parvula (C. Agardh) Zanardini, Lomentaria parvula var. vaga Kützing, fide Appeltans et al. (2010)
Origin: Native
Distribution: Galapagos Islands: Punta Nuñez and Academy Bay - Santa Cruz (Dawson, 1963). Santa Cruz (Silva, 1966). Galapagos Islands (Miller & Garske, 2011).
- 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
- Dawson, E.Y. (1963) New records of marine algae from the Galapagos Islands. Pacific Naturalist 4(1): 1-23.
- 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 unpublished manuscript, 49 pp.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, Champia parvula", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=8312. Accessed 5 June 2025.