Galapagos Species Database

The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.

Caecum quadratum Carpenter, 1857

Shallow water (less than 200 m depth)

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Gastropoda

Order
Littorinimorpha

Superfamily
Rissooidea

Family
Caecidae

Genus
Caecum

Species
quadratum

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Caecum richthofeni Strong & Hertlein, 1939; LACM: 84-25, 84-44, 84-46 (fide Kaiser, 1997), plus several other lots (ex.: AHF 157-34, 402, 407, 452)

References

  • 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.
  • Kaiser, K.L. (1997) The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos /. In The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos. Kaiser, K. L. (1997). The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos /. In The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos / (p. 76). https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.129924.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Caecum quadratum", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10174. Accessed 5 November 2026.