Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Phycodrys elegans Setchell & N.L. Gardner, P. pulchra W.R. Taylor, fide Wynne (1985). Type locality: Academy Bay, I. Santa Cruz, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Type: W.R. Taylor no. 34-306; 20 January 1934; tetrasporic, rare as dredged off Academy Bay. Phycodrys elegans: Holotype: No. 236493, Herb. Calif. Acad. Sci., collected by Albert Stewart (No. 2327) Feb. 23, 1905, Type locality: Chatham Island, Galapagos (Setchell & Gardner, 1937).

Taxon origin: Endemic

Distribution: Galapagos Islands (Miller & Garske, 2011) Phycodrys elegans at Santa Cruz (Setchell & Gardner, 1937).

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• 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 unpublished manuscript, 49 pp.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.
• INA (2021) Index Nominum Algarum, University Herbarium, University of California, Berkeley. Compiled by Paul Silva. Available online at http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/CPD/. Page last update February 05, 2020.

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