Galapagos Species Database

The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.

Nassarius exsarcus (Dall, 1908)

Length: 9 mm; diameter: 4.5 mm.

Deep water (more than 200 m depth)

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Gastropoda

Order
Neogastropoda

Superfamily
Buccinoidea

Family
Nassariidae

Genus
Nassarius

Species
exsarcus

Taxon category: Accepted

USNM: 110565 (Holotype, type locality: Galapagos)

Origin: Endemic

Distribution

Distribution: Galápagos islands.

References

  • Dall, W.H. (1908) Reports on the dredging operations off the west coast of Central America to the Galapagos, to the west coast of Mexico, and in the Gulf of California, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, carried on by the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer "Albatross", from October 1904 to March 1905, Lieut. Commander L.M. Garrett, U.S.N. commanding. XIV. The Mollusca and Brachiopoda. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 43 (6): 205-487 pl. 1-22.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Nassarius exsarcus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10285. Accessed 30 October 2026.