Galapagos Species Database
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Chama buddiana
Mexican jewel box
Size: about 50 mm. The ground color of the outside is dark red, with large and small white spines in irregular rows.
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth), intertidal, rocky bottoms, 80 m depth
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Bivalvia
Order
Venerida
Superfamily
Chamoidea
Family
Chamidae
Genus
Chama
Species
buddiana
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Chama mexicana Carpenter, auct., non Carpenter, 1857 (fide HERTZ et al., 1982), C. mexicana Carpenter, 1857 (fide Kaiser, 1997), C. frondosa fornicata Carpenter, 1857, ? C. purpurascens Tryon, 1872, ex Conrad, MS; LACM: A.8881.4; 84-26, 84-37, 84-39 (fide Kaiser, 1997)
Origin: Native
Distribution: From Clipperton island and Panama south to Ecuador and the Galapagos islands.
- 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.
- Fischer, W. Krupp, F., Schneider, W., Sommer, C., Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, V.H. (1995) Guia FAO para la identificación de especies para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico centro-oriental. Vol. I. Plantas e Invertebrados. FAO, Roma, 646 pp.
- Hertz, C.M. Gemmell, J. & Myers, B.W. (1982) A review of Chama buddiana C.B. Adams, 1852 (Bivalvia: Chamidae). The Festivus 14(2): 14-24.
- 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.
- 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, Chama buddiana", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10545. Accessed 2 November 2026.