Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Veprichlamys incantata
vieira, Scallop
Deep water (more than 200 m depth).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Bivalvia
Order
Pectinida
Superfamily
Pectinoidea
Family
Pectinidae
Section
Chlamydini
Genus
Veprichlamys
Species
incantata
Taxon category: Accepted
AMNH: 163355, 187127, USNM: 770267 (Paratypes), 778957, CAS: 31040 (Paratypes), SDNHM: 52263 (Holotype, type locality: Galapagos), CDRS: 397 Synm.: Chlamys (Chlamys) incantata Hertlein, 1972 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Endemic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.
- Hertlein, L.G. (1972) Description of a new speceis of Chlamys (Mollusca - Pelecypoda) from the Galapagos Islands. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series, 39(1): 1-6.
- 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, Veprichlamys incantata", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10445. Accessed 31 October 2026.