Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Eulithidium diantha
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth)
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Trochida
Superfamily
Trochoidea
Family
Phasianellidae
Genus
Eulithidium
Species
diantha
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Tricolia diantha Mc Lean, 1970; AMNH: 160270 (Paratypes), ANSP: 319136 (Paratypes), 339998, USNM: 679575 (Paratypes), LACM: 1397 (Holotype), 1398 (Paratypes), 33-156.1, 33-157.3, 33-164.1, 33-165.2, 33-166.6, 34-67.7, 34-263.3, 34-264.4, 34-267.1, 34-269.4, 34-270.3, 34-273.4, 34-279.4, 34-280.4, 34-281.5, 34-282.5, 34-287.2, 34-290.6, 34-291.1, 34-293.2, 34-295.2, 34-296.2, 34-297.1, 34-298.2, 34-299.1, 34-301.1, 38-57.2, 38-194.3, 66-121.10, 66-125.18, 72-196.14, 84-28.11, CDRS:1206, 1247, FNRS-Belgian expedition to the Galapagos, 1984, MHNG expedition to the Galapagos, 1993
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- 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.
- 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.
- Keen, A.M. (1958) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 1st edition, 624 pp.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Eulithidium diantha", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10117. Accessed 5 June 2026.