Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Sveltia gladiator
Deep water (more than 200 m depth)
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Neogastropoda
Superfamily
Cancellarioidea
Family
Cancellariidae
Genus
Sveltia
Species
gladiator
Taxon category: Accepted
USNM: 760634 (Holotype, type locality: Galapagos), Syn.: Cancellaria gladiator Petit, 1976
Origin: Endemic
- Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.
- Finet, Y. (1991) The Marine Mollusks of the Galapagos Islands. In: Galápagos Marine Invertebrate. Taxonomy, Biogeography, and Evolution in Darwin's Islands. Plenum Press. New York and London, p. 253-280.
- Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.
- Petit, R.E. (1976) Notes on Cancellariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) - III. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 12(1-2): 33-43.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Sveltia gladiator", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10476. Accessed 31 October 2026.