Galapagos Species Database

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

Sthenorytis turbina (Dall, 1908)

Uñas de mar, Sea nails

Deep water (more than 200 m depth)

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Gastropoda

Order
[unassigned] Caenogastropoda

Superfamily
Epitonioidea

Family
Epitoniidae

Genus
Sthenorytis

Species
turbina

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Epitonium toroense Dall, 1912, Epitonium turbinum Dall, 1908 (Horton et al., 2021); AMNH: 163359, 163360, ANSP: 331650, USNM: 110568 (Holotype, type locality: Galapagos)

Origin: Native

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.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Sthenorytis turbina", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10349. Accessed 31 October 2026.