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Asperiscala huffmani DuShane & McLean, 1968)

caracol, Snail

Shallow water (less than 200 m depth)

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Gastropoda

Order
Caenogastropoda

Superfamily
Epitonioidea

Family
Epitoniidae

Genus
Asperiscala

Species
huffmani

Taxon category: Accepted

ANSP: 153313

Origin: Native

References

Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Asperiscala huffmani", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10329. Accessed 5 November 2026.