Galapagos Species Database
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Dentimargo anticlea
Gastropodo, Gastropods
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth)
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Neogastropoda
Superfamily
Volutoidea
Family
Marginellidae
Genus
Dentimargo
Species
anticlea
Taxon category: Accepted
USNM: 194986 (Lectotype), LACM: AHF-400, AHF-406, AHF-407, AHF-411, AHF-415, AHF-417. Formerly considered a synonym of Dentimargo erema (Dall 1919). Synm.: Marginella anticlea Dall, 1919 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Endemic
- Dall, W.H. (1919) Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the north Pacific Ocean in the collection of the United States National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 56 (2295): 293-371.
- Dall, W.H. (1919) Descriptions of new species of mollusks of the family Turritidae from the west coast of America and adjacent regions. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 56(2288): 1-86, pls. 1-24.
- 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, Dentimargo anticlea", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10414. Accessed 5 November 2026.