Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Buccinum perdix Linnaeus, 1758, Cadium perdix Link, 1807, Cadus coturnix Röding, 1798, Cadus meleagris Röding, 1798, Cadus perdix Röding, 1798, Dolium pennatum Schröter in Martini, 1788, Dolium perdix (Linnaeus, 1758), Dolium plumatum Green, 1830, Dolium rufum Blainville, 1829, Perdix reticulatus, Montfort, 1810, fide appeltans et al. (2010), LACM: 84-27 (fide Emerson, 1991), FNRS-Belgian expedition to the Galapagos, 1984

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.
• Emerson, W.K. (1991) First records for Cymatium mundum (Gould) in the eastern Pacific Ocean, with comments on the zoogeography of the tropical trans-Pacific Tonnacean and non-Tonnacean Prosobranch Gastropods with Indo-Pacific faunal affinities in West American Waters. The Nautilus 105(2): 62-80.
• 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.
• Kay, E.A. (1991) The Marine Mollusks of the Galapagos. Determinants of insular marine Faunas. In: James, M.J. (ed.): Galápagos Marine Invertebrate. Taxonomy, Biogeography, and Evolution in Darwin's Islands. Plenum Press. New York and London, p. 235-252.
• Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.