Galapagos Species Database

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Vetulonia galapagana Dall, 1913

Deep water (more than 200 m depth)

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Gastropoda

Order
Seguenziida

Superfamily
Trochoidea

Family
[unassigned] Seguenzioidea

Genus
Vetulonia

Species
galapagana

Taxon category: Accepted

USNM: 207607 (Holotype)

Origin: Endemic

References

  • Dall, W.H. (1913) A new genus of Trochidae. The Nautilus 27(8): 86-87.
  • Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 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, Vetulonia galapagana", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10108. Accessed 5 November 2026.