Galapagos Species Database

The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.

Melobesia accola (Foslie) Me.Lemoine, 1924

alga roja, red algae

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Plantae

Class
Florideophyceae

Order
Corallinales

Suborder
Mesophyllineae

Family
Hapalidiaceae

Genus
Melobesia

Species
accola

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Litholepis accola Foslie 1907, Lithoporella accola (Foslie) Adey 1970 (Guiry & Guiry, 2021).

Origin: Native

Distribution

Distribution: (L. accola) Galapagos I. at Santiago (Silva, 1966). Pacific Islands, America: Gulf of California, Mexico, Galapagos Islands (Guiry & Guiry, 2021).

References

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Melobesia accola", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=11484. Accessed 7 September 2025.