Galapagos Species Database

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

Dentimargo anticlea (Dall, 1919)

Gastropodo, Gastropods

Shallow water (less than 200 m depth)

Taxonomy

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

References

  • 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.