Galapagos Species Database
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Semele venusta
Length: 22m ; height: 15 mm; diameter: 8;5 mm.
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth)
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Bivalvia
Order
Cardiida
Superfamily
Tellinoidea
Family
Semelidae
Genus
Semele
Species
venusta
Taxon category: Accepted
LACM: 34-56, 34-199, 71-79, 72-196 (all fide Coan, 1988)
Origin: Native
- Coan, E.V. (1988) Recent eastern Pacific species of the bivalve genus Semele. The Veliger 31: 1-42.
- 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.
- 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, Semele venusta", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10579. Accessed 1 November 2026.