Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Peyssonnelia mexicana
alga roja, Red algae
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Rhodophyta
Class
Florideophyceae
Order
Peyssonneliales
Family
Peyssonneliaceae
Genus
Peyssonnelia
Species
mexicana
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Native
Distribution: Galapagos I.: Academy Bay - Santa Cruz and Wreck Bay- San Criastobal (Dawson, 1963). Santa Cruz and San Cristobal (Silva, 1966). Galapagos Islands (Miller & Garske, 2011)
- Dawson, E.Y. (1963) New records of marine algae from the Galapagos Islands. Pacific Naturalist 4(1): 1-23.
- 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.
- Miller, K.A. Garske, L.E. (2011) Galápagos Seaweeds. unpublished manuscript, 49 pp.
- 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.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Peyssonnelia mexicana", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=8270. Accessed 31 October 2026.