Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Basterotia peninsularis
Length: 13 mm; height: 10.5 mm. A white shell with a knobby cardinal tooth on the hinge.
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth)
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Bivalvia
Order
Galeommatida
Superfamily
Cyamioidea
Family
Basterotiidae
Genus
Basterotia
Species
peninsularis
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Basterotia hertleini Durham, 1950, Basterotia ecuadoriana Olsson, 1961; LACM: 34-30.11, 34-46.28 (fide Coan, 1999), CAS: 27221, 27231, 35900; Syn.: Anisodonta peninsularis Jordan, 1936 (basionym), fide Appeltans et al. (2010)
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.
- Coan, E.V. (1999) The Eastern Pacific Sportellidae (Bivalvia). The Veliger 42(2): 132-151, 42 figs.
- 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.
- Keen, A.M. (1958) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 1st edition, 624 pp.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Basterotia peninsularis", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10542. Accessed 30 October 2026.