Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Pitar consanguineus
Almeja, Saltwater clam
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth)
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Bivalvia
Order
Venerida
Superfamily
Veneroidea
Family
Veneridae
Genus
Pitar
Species
consanguineus
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Agriopoma aequinoctiale Fischer-Piette, 1969, Cytherea consanguinea C. B. Adams, 1852, Pitar (Pitar) consanguineus (C. B. Adams, 1852), Pitar elenensis Olsson, 1961, Pitar hoffstetteri Fischer-Piette, 1969 (Horton et al., 2021); CAS: 27232, 27255.
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- 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.
- 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, Pitar consanguineus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10557. Accessed 31 October 2026.