Zosterocarpus abyssicola

Zosterocarpus abyssicola is a species of brown algae endemic to the Galápagos Islands.

[1] The specific epithet abyssicola derives from the Greek ἄβυσσος (ávyssos) and Latin -cola, meaning one who inhabits the abyss.

[3] It is more slender than Z. oedogonium, and the brown tannin cells for the former are wider than the rest of the filaments, ad opposed to the same size.

[3] The latter two also have laterals that arise from single sells on the filaments and not from the septa between cells like the former two species.

[1] Like Desmarestia tropica, another William Randolph Taylor find from the same expedition, it is threatened by warming ocean temperatures and overgrazing by sea urchins.