Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Melanothamnus simplex
Alga roja, Red algae
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Rhodophyta
Class
Florideophyceae
Order
Ceramiales
Family
Rhodomelaceae
Section
Polysiphonieae
Genus
Melanothamnus
Species
simplex
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Polysiphonia simplex Hollenberg 1942, Neosiphonia simplex (Hollenberg) Y.-P.Lee 2008 (Guiry & Guiry, 2021).
Origin: Native
Distribution: Galapagos I.: (P. simplex) Academy Bay and Tortuga Bay - Santa Cruz (Dawson, 1963). Santa Cruz (Silva, 1966). Galapagos Islands (Miller & Garske, 2011). (M simplex) America: Gulf of California, Mexico (Guiry & Guiry, 2021).
- 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
- 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.
- Lee, Y. (2008) Marine algae of Jeju. Academy Publication, Seoul, 177 pp.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Melanothamnus simplex", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19116. Accessed 31 October 2026.