Galapagos Species Database
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Semele flavescens
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth)
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Bivalvia
Order
Cardiida
Superfamily
Tellinoidea
Family
Semelidae
Genus
Semele
Species
flavescens
Taxon category: Accepted
CAS: 064527 (misidentified as S. solida, fide Coan, 1988), 064672 (misidentified as S. corrugata, fide Coan, 1988), ? CDRS: 680; Syn.: Amphidesma flavescens Gould, 1851, Amphidesma proximum C. B. Adams, 1852, 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. (1988) Recent eastern Pacific species of the bivalve genus Semele. The Veliger 31: 1-42.
- 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, Semele flavescens", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10575. Accessed 2 November 2026.