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Gracilaria skottsbergii Taylor (1945)

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Missing (Edgar et al., 2010)

Last record: 27 January 1934 (Taylor, 1945)

IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered

 

Distribution

Post Office Bay, Floreana, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador (Miller et al., 2007)

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

W.R. Taylor no. 34-360 (see http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=52997 for a fuller account)

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Taylor, W. R. (1945). Pacific marine algae of the Allan Hancock Expeditions to the Galápagos Islands. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions 12: i-iv, 1-528, 3 figs, 100 pls.

 

Other references:

Edgar, Graham J., Banks, Stuart A., Brandt, Margarita, Bustamante, Rodrigo H., Chiriboga, Angel, Earle, Sylvia A., Garske, Lauren E., Glynn, Peter W., Grove, Jack S., Henderson, Scott, Hickman, Cleve P., Miller, Kathy A., Rivera, Fernando and Wellington, Gerald M. (2010). El Niño, grazers and fisheries interact to greatly elevate extinction risk for Galapagos marine species. Global Change Biology 16(10): 2876-2890. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02117.x

Garske, L. E. (2002). Macroalgas Marinas. In: Danulat, E. & Edgar, G.J. (eds.). Reserva Marina de Galápagos. Línea Base de la Biodiversidad. Fundación Charles Darwin/Servicio Parque Nacional Galápagos, Santa Cruz, Galápagos, Ecuador, p. 419-439.

Guiry, M. D. Gracilaria skottsbergii Database entry on AlgaeBase. Accessed 18 January 2011. (http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=52997)

Hoyle, M. D. (1994). Gracilaria dawsonii sp. nov. (Rhodophyta, Gigartinales): A second flattened species from the Hawaiian Islands. In: Abbott, I.A. (ed): Taxonomy of economic seaweeds with reference to some Pacific species. Vol. 4. California Sea Grant College System, La Jolla, California, p. 85-94.

Miller, K. A. and Garske, L. E. (2011). Galápagos Seaweeds. unpublished manuscript. 49 pp.

Miller, K. A., Garske, L. and Edgar, G. (2007). Gracilaria skottsbergii. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 02 June 2013.

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.

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