Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Ctena mexicana
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth)
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Bivalvia
Order
Lucinida
Superfamily
Lucinoidea
Family
Lucinidae
Genus
Ctena
Species
mexicana
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Lucina pectinata Carpenter, 1857, non C.B. Adams, 1852, L. fibula Reeve, 1850, non Adams & Reeve, 1848, part. L. bella auct., non Conrad, 1837; CAS: 27232
Origin: Native
- 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.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Ctena mexicana", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10531. Accessed 31 October 2026.