Galapagos Species Database
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Mirachelus galapagensis
Height: 3.6 mm; diameter: 2.9 mm.
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth)
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Seguenziida
Superfamily
Seguenzioidea
Family
Chilodontaidae
Genus
Mirachelus
Species
galapagensis
Taxon category: Accepted
AMNH: 160264 (Paratype), ANSP : 319140 (Paratype), LACM : 1377 (Holotype), 1378 (Paratypes), 33-166.2, 33-172.1, 34-16.2, 34-20.4, 34-28.5, 34-263.1, 34-264.1, 34-265.4, 34-274.1, 34-275.1, 34-279.1, 34-280.1, 34-281.1, 34-290.3, 34-302.1, 38-39.5, 38-40.2, 38-56.4, 38-179.2, 38-180.1, 38-194.1, 38-198.1, 66-211.3.
Origin: Native
Distribution: From Cocos island, off Costa Rica, and to Ecuador including Galapagos islands.
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- Finet, Y. (1991) The Marine Mollusks of the Galapagos Islands. In: Galápagos Marine Invertebrate. Taxonomy, Biogeography, and Evolution in Darwin's Islands. Plenum Press. New York and London, p. 253-280.
- Keen, A.M. (1958) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 1st edition, 624 pp.
- 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, Mirachelus galapagensis", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10104. Accessed 18 April 2025.