Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Epitonium habeli
caracol, Snail
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth)
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
[unassigned] Caenogastropoda
Superfamily
Epitonioidea
Family
Epitoniidae
Genus
Epitonium
Species
habeli
Taxon category: Accepted
USNM: 56055 (Holotype, type locality: Galapagos), LACM: AHF 810a-38 Note: This species completely bridges the gap between Asperiscala and Mitidoscala (Dall, 1917).
Origin: Native
- Dall, W.H. (1917) Notes on the shells of the genus Epitonium and its allies of the Pacific coast of America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 53(2217): 471-488.
- 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.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Epitonium habeli", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10328. Accessed 1 November 2026.