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Linga cancellaris (Philippi, 1846)

Bivalvo, Bivalve

Shallow water (less than 200 m depth)

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Bivalvia

Order
Veneroida

Superfamily
Lucinoidea

Family
Lucinidae

Genus
Linga

Species
cancellaris

Taxon category: Accepted

LACM: 34-28, 71-73, 72-190 (fide Kaiser, 1997)

Origin: Native

References

  • Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.
  • Integrated Taxonomic Information System (2021) Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). Www.itis.gov
  • Kaiser, K.L. (1997) The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos /. In The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos. Kaiser, K. L. (1997). The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos /. In The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos / (p. 76). https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.129924.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Linga cancellaris", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10532. Accessed 1 November 2026.