Galapagos Species Database

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

Dendostrea folium (Linnaeus, 1758)

Shallow water (less than 200 m depth)

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Bivalvia

Order
Ostreida

Superfamily
Ostreoidea

Family
Ostreidae

Genus
Dendostrea

Species
folium

Taxon category: Accepted

LACM: 84-31 (fide Kaiser, 1997), FNRS-Belgian expedition to the Galapagos, 1984

Origin: Native

References

  • 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, Dendostrea folium", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10442. Accessed 25 May 2026.