Galapagos Species Database

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Vanikoro galapagana Hertlein & A. M. Strong, 1951

Gasterópodo, Gastropod

Shallow water (less than 200 m depth)

Taxonomy

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

References

  • 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.