Eisenia galapagensis
alga parda, brown algae
Antes de 1983, el kelp se registró en Isabela (Caleta Iguana), Santa Cruz (Bahía Academia, Caamaño), Santa Fe, Marchena (North Bay), Fernandina (Punta Espinosa) y Floreana (Post Office Bay, playa negra). Cinelli y Colantoni (1974) lo reportaron en 1 de 8 sitios muestreados entre 1971 y 1972; Mead et al (1972), en 4 de 29 sitios en 1972. Wellington (1975) observó que las algas fueron especialmente abundantes en profundidad alrededor de Caleta Iguana (Isabela) durante sus estudios. Sin embargo, no hubo ningún avistamiento confirmado hasta la recolección de una muestra en el 2004 y el posterior redescubrimiento de algas profundas locales extensas durante un crucero de busqueda en enero del 2007 en Caleta Iguana, Isabela y Fernandina occidental.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Chromista
Phylum
Ochrophyta
Class
Phaeophyceae
Order
Laminariales
Family
Lessoniaceae
Genus
Eisenia
Species
galapagensis
Taxon category: Accepted
Type locality: Academy Bay, Isla Santa Cruz, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador (Taylor 1945: 109-110). Type: W.R. Taylor No. 34-305; 20 Jan. 1934; Hancock Foundation (Taylor 1945: 109-110). Notes: Frequent as dredged off Academy Bay. INA (2021) UC University Herbarium has a Collection of Marine Algal TYPE of Galapagos I. UC1884215 , AHFH147.
Taxon origin: Endemic
Distribution: Galapagos I.: North Bay - Marchena, Academy Bay, Gordon Rocks - Santa Cruz, off Post Office Bay, Black Beach Anchorage - Floreana (Taylor, 1945). Santa Cruz, Floreana, Marchena (Silva, 1966).
- 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.
- Graham, M.H. Kinlan, B.P, Druehl, L.D., Garske, L.E. & Banks, S. (2007) Deep-water kelp refugia as potential hotspots of tropical marine diversity and productivity PNAS 104(42): 16576–16580
- 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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