South Pacific

Abstract

Rhodoliths of the South Pacific remain largely unstudied. Twenty two rhodolith-forming species from ten genera have been reported from the southern Pacific, although of these, only nine species in six genera have been confirmed as rhodolith records in the literature. There have been few ecological or distributional studies of rhodoliths in the southern Pacific, although some data are available on the age and growth rates of rhodoliths from the region. The taxonomy and nomenclature of rhodolith-forming taxa in this region are problematic.