Galapagos Species Database
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Engina pulchra
Length: 15 mm; diameter: 11 mm.
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth)
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Neogastropoda
Superfamily
Buccinoidea
Family
Pisaniidae
Genus
Engina
Species
pulchra
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Buccinum pulchrum Reeve, 1846 (Conch. Icon. 3: pl. 11, fig. 80) (not Ricinula pulchra Reeve, 1846, Conch. Icon. 3: pl. 3, fig. 20, an Indo-Pacific species); ? Columbella livida Sowerby, 1832 (nomen oblitum); Ricinula reeviana C.B. Adams, 1852 (unnecessary new name); BMNH: 1966608 (Syntypes, type locality: Galapagos), fide Cernohorsky, 1975
Origin: Native
- Cernohorsky, W.O. (1975) Supplementary Notes on the Taxonomy of Buccinid Species of the Subfamily Pisaniinae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Records Auckland Inst. Mus. 12: 175-211, figs. 1-75.
- 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.
- Keen, A.M. (1958) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 1st edition, 624 pp.
- Reeve, L. (1843-78) Conchologia Iconica: or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 1-20. London.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Engina pulchra", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10281. Accessed 31 October 2026.