Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Leiosolenus levigatus
Bivalva, Bivalve
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth)
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Bivalvia
Order
Mytilida
Family
Mytilidae
Genus
Leiosolenus
Species
levigatus
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Lithodomus laevigatus Kleemann, 1980 (unjustified emendation of Lithodomus levigatus Quoy & Gaimard, 1835), Lithodomus levigatus Quoy & Gaimard, 1835, Lithophaga (Leiosolenus) laevigata (Kleemann, 1980) (see nomenclature note under Lithodomus laevigatus), Lithophaga laevigata (Klemmann, 1980) (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
- 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.
- Soot-Ryen, T. (1955) A report on the family Mytilidae (Pelecypoda). Allan Hancock publications 20, University of Southern California Press, Los Angeles, 174 pp., 10 pls.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Leiosolenus levigatus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10404. Accessed 31 October 2026.