Galapagos Species Database
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Solariella diomedea
Height: 7 mm; diameter: 6.5 mm.
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth)
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Trochida
Superfamily
Trochoidea
Family
Solariellidae
Genus
Solariella
Species
diomedea
Taxon category: Accepted
USNM: 194971 (Lectotype), 678684 (Paralectotype), LACM: 33-161.1, 33-166.3, 33-169.1, 33-170.2, 33-173.1, 34-64.6, 34-65.3, 34-69.2, 34-265.6, 34-269.3, 34-274.2, 34-275.2, 34-279.2, 34-280.2, 34-281.2, 34-282.1, 34-284.1, 34-289.1, 34-290.4, 34-296.1, 34-302.2, 38-57.1, 38-72.1, 38-80.6, 38-194.2, 38-197.1, 38-198.2, 66-211.4.
Origin: Endemic
- Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.
- 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.
- Dall, W.H. (1919) Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the north Pacific Ocean in the collection of the United States National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 56 (2295): 293-371.
- 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, Solariella diomedea", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10105. Accessed 17 June 2025.