Galapagos Species Database
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Vanikoro galapagana
Gasterópodo, Gastropod
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth)
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Littorinimorpha
Superfamily
Vanikoroidea
Family
Vanikoridae
Genus
Vanikoro
Species
galapagana
Taxon category: Accepted
USNM: 678883, CAS: 9767 (Holotype), 27221, CDRS: 1200
Origin: Native
- Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.
- Hertlein, L.G. Strong, A.M. (1951) Eastern Pacific Expeditions of the New York Zoological Society. Mollusks from the west coast of Mexico and Central America, part 10. Zoologica, Scientific Contributions of the New York Zoological Society 36: 67-120, pls. 1-11.
- Mulliner, M. (1996) Dredging around Isla Danzante, Gulf of California, Mexico, or what you find at the end of a line. The Festivus 28(6): 62-70.
- 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.
- 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, Vanikoro galapagana", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10184. Accessed 25 May 2025.