Galapagos Species Database
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Admetula deroyae
Uña de mar, Sea Nails
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth)
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Neogastropoda
Superfamily
Cancellarioidea
Family
Cancellariidae
Genus
Admetula
Species
deroyae
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Cancellaria deroyae (Petit, 1970) AMNH: 154676 (Holotype, type locality: Galapagos), LACM: AHF 147-34, AHF 170-34, AHF 190-34, AHF 195-34, AHF 201-34
Origin: Endemic
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- 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.
- Kay, E.A. (1991) The Marine Mollusks of the Galapagos. Determinants of insular marine Faunas. In: James, M.J. (ed.): Galápagos Marine Invertebrate. Taxonomy, Biogeography, and Evolution in Darwin's Islands. Plenum Press. New York and London, p. 235-252.
- Petit, R. (1970) NOTES ON THE MOLLUSCAN FAUNA OF THE MONTEZUMA FORMATION , COSTA RICA. Petit, R. (1970). NOTES ON THE MOLLUSCAN FAUNA OF THE MONTEZUMA FORMATION ,COSTA RICA.
- Petit, R.E. (1970) Notes on Cancellariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) - II. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 8: 83-88.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Admetula deroyae", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10472. Accessed 13 June 2026.