Galapagos Species Database
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Lirobarleeia lara
Gastropodo, Gastropod
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth)
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Littorinimorpha
Superfamily
Rissooidea
Family
Barleeiidae
Genus
Lirobarleeia
Species
lara
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Alvania lara Bartsch, 1911, Alvinia lara (Bartsch, 1911) (Horton et al., 2021). USNM: 195010 (Holotype, type locality: Galapagos), LACM: several lots (ex. : 72-196, AHF 402), CDRS: 931, 1203, 1251, 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.
- Bartsch, P. (1911) The Recent and Fossil Mollusks of the Genus Alvania from the West Coast of America. Smithsonian Inst. Natl. Mus. Proc. 41: 333-362.
- Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Lirobarleeia lara", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10152. Accessed 1 November 2026.