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Rhodophyta (Red/Brown Algae)

 

Class: Bangiophyceae

Order: Bangiales

Family: Bangiaceae

–No subordinate taxa 

 

Class: Florideophyceae

Order: Ceramiales

Family: Delesseriaceae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Phycodrina elegans Setchell & Gardner (1937) - 1977 Galápagos Islands, Ecuador Missing Access
             
Vanvoorstia bennettiana (Harvey) Papenfuss (1956) Bennett's seaweed October 1886 Port Jackson, New South Wales, Australia Extinct Access

 

Order: Corallinales

Family: Hapalidiaceae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Lithothamnion superpositum Foslie (1900) - (rediscovered) Western Atlantic Ocean Invalid (synonym) Access

 

Order: Gelidiales

Family: Gelidiellaceae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Gelidiella ramellosa (Kützing) Feldmann & Hamel (1934) - (rediscovered) near Two Rocks, Western Australia, Australia Rediscovered Access

 

Order: Gigartinales

Family: Gigartinaceae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Gigartina australis J.Agardh (1899) Turkish towel algae 1892 Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia Extinct Access

 

 

Order: Gracilariales

Family: Gracilariaceae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Gracilaria skottsbergii W.R.Taylor (1945) - 1934 Galápagos Islands, Ecuador Missing Access

 

Order: Nemaliales

Family: Galaxauraceae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Galaxaura barbata R.Chou in W.R.Taylor (1945) - 1963 Floreana (Post Office Bay) & Santa Cruz (Tortuga Bay), Galápagos Islands, Ecuador Missing Access

 

 

Class: Phaeophyceae

Order: Desmarestiales

Family: Desmarestiaceae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Desmarestia tropica W.R.Taylor (1945) Tropical acidweed 1972 Galápagos Islands, Ecuador Missing Access

 

Order: Dictyotales

Family: Dictyotaceae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Dictyota galapagensis (Farlow) De Clerck (2006) - 1974 Galápagos Islands, Ecuador Missing Access
             
Spatoglossum schmittii W.R.Taylor (1945) - 1978 Galápagos Islands, Ecuador Missing Access

 

Order: Fucales

Family: Fucaceae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Gongolaria montagnei (J.Agardh) Kuntze (1891) - (rediscovered) Algeria Rediscovered Access

 

Family: Sargassaceae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Bifurcaria galapagensis (Piccone & Grunow) Womersley (1964) Galápagos stringweed February 1983 Galápagos Islands, Ecuador Missing Access

 

Order: Sporochnales

Family: Sporochnaceae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Nereia lophocladia J. Agardh (1897) - (rediscovered) New South Wales & Victoria, Australia Rediscovered (twice?) Access

 

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