Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Rhodymenia decumbens
alga roja, red algae
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Rhodophyta
Class
Florideophyceae
Order
Rhodymeniales
Family
Rhodymeniaceae
Genus
Rhodymenia
Species
decumbens
Taxon category: Accepted
Type locality: I. Baltra, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador (Taylor 1945: 251). Type: W.R. Taylor no. 34-331; 22 January 1934; Hancock Foundation (Taylor 1945: 251). Notes: Type dredged off shore in 9 m of water, I. Baltra (Taylor, 1945).
Origin: Endemic
Distribution: Galapagos I.: Baltra (Taylor, 1945). S. Seymour (Silva, 1966). Galapagos Islands (Miller & Garske, 2011)
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- 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 unpublished manuscript, 49 pp.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.
- Silva, P.C. Meñez, E.G. & Moe, R.L. (1987) Catalog of the benthic marine algae of the Philippines. Smithsonian Contributions to Marine Sciences 27: [i-ii] iii-iv, 1-179, 2 figs, 1 table.
- 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, Rhodymenia decumbens", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=8319. Accessed 31 October 2026.