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Charles Darwin Foundation Galapagos Species Checklist


Red Algae

Red algae are predominantly marine organisms that inhabit the high intertidal to deep subtidal zone. They are mostly multicellular, filamentous or pseudoparenchymatous, branched or unbranched, cylindrical to compressed or foliaceous.
Many species are microscopic, unicellular or short-filamentous; very few species are larger, macroscopic algae.
In a few species, phycocyanin dominates giving a steel-gray instead of the more common red color.

Carbohydrates known as floridean starch are characteristic storage metabolites.

Most red algae are perennial, usually with separate sporangial and gametangial stages in their life history, the stages similar or dissimilar in appearance.
They are mostly dioecious plants and have non-motile spores and male gametes (spermatia).

Authors: Diego Ruiz, Frauke Ziemmeck.

Other Contributors: Stuart Banks, Margarita Brandt, Rodrigo Bustamante, Angel Chiriboga, Graham Edgar, José Miguel Fariña, Peter Glynn, Jack Grove, Alex Hearn, Cleveland Hickman, Paul Humann, Jerson Moreno, Fernando Pinillos, Fernando Rivera, Franz Smith, Marco Toscano, Mariana Vera, Luis Vinueza.

Names of taxa included: 248 total (237 accepted, 1 doubtful, 8 preliminary identification, 2 problematic).

Origin of the taxa included: 58 endemic.

Rhodophyta Species Checklist

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Domain Eukaryota

Kingdom Plantae

Division Rhodophyta

Class Compsopogonophyceae

Order Erythropeltidales

Class Florideophyceae

Order Acrochaetiales

Order Ahnfeltiales

Order Bonnemaisoniales

Order Ceramiales

Order Chroococcales

Order Colaconematales

Order Corallinales

Order Gelidiales

Order Gigartinales

Order Gracilariales

Order Halymeniales

Order Hildenbrandiales

Order Nemaliales

Order Nemastomatales

Order Palmariales

Order Peyssonneliales

Order Plocamiales

Order Rhodymeniales

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This list should be cited as follows:

Ruiz, D., Ziemmeck, F. (2011). CDF Checklist of Galapagos Red Algae - FCD Lista de especies de Algas rojas de Galápagos. In: Bungartz, F., Herrera, H., Jaramillo, P., Tirado, N., Jiménez-Uzcátegui, G., Ruiz, D., Guézou, A. & Ziemmeck, F. (eds.). Charles Darwin Foundation Galapagos Species Checklist - Lista de Especies de Galápagos de la Fundación Charles Darwin. Charles Darwin Foundation / Fundación Charles Darwin, Puerto Ayora, Galapagos: http://www.darwinfoundation.org/datazone/checklists/algae/rhodophyta/ Last updated 13 Apr 2011.