Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Nucula exigua
Length: 6 mm; height: 5 mm; diameter: 4 mm.
Shallow to deep water
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Bivalvia
Order
Nuculida
Superfamily
Nuculoidea
Family
Nuculidae
Genus
Nucula
Species
exigua
Taxon category: Accepted
LACM: 38-192 (fide Kaiser, 1997)
Origin: Native
Distribution: Baja California,Peru and Ecuador including Galapagos islands. Baja California,Peru and Ecuador including Galapagos islands.
- 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.
- Kaiser, K.L. (1997) The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos /. In The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos. Kaiser, K. L. (1997). The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos /. In The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos / (p. 76). https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.129924.
- 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, Nucula exigua", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10373. Accessed 31 October 2026.