Galapagos Species Database

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Condylocardia elongata Coan, 2003

Bivalva

Shallow water (less than 200 m depth)

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Bivalvia

Order
Carditida

Superfamily
Carditoidea

Family
Condylocardiidae

Genus
Condylocardia

Species
elongata

Taxon category: Accepted

LACM: 2926 (ex 72-196) (Holotype), 2927 (ex 72-196) (Paratypes); 33-157.7, 33-174.9, 34-262.2, 34-263.8, 34-264.8, 34-271.9, 34-283.11, 34-287.8, 38-193.15, 84-26.17, 84-41.20 (all fide Coan, 2003: 53)

Origin: Endemic

Distribution

Distribution: Galapagos Islands in Fernandina I (Coan, 2003).

References

  • Coan, E.V. (2003) The tropical eastern Pacific species of the Condylocardiidae (Bivalvia). The Nautilus 117(2): 47-61.
  • 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, Condylocardia elongata", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10523. Accessed 31 October 2026.