Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Babelomurex deroyorum
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth)
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Neogastropoda
Superfamily
Muricoidea
Family
Muricidae
Genus
Babelomurex
Species
deroyorum
Taxon category: Accepted
SDNHM: 81613 (Holotype, type locality: Galapagos), 81616 (Paratypes)
Origin: Endemic
- D'Attilio, A. Myers, B.W. (1984) Descriptions of five new muricacean gastropods and comments on two additional species, in the families Muricidae and Coralliophilidae (Mollusca). Transact. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist. 20(5): 81-94.
- Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.
- 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, Babelomurex deroyorum", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10243. Accessed 31 October 2026.