Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Gastrochaena ovata
Length: 10 mm; height: 4.8 mm. A large specimen measures 22 mm by 15 mm.
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth)
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Bivalvia
Order
Gastrochaenida
Superfamily
Gastrochaenoidea
Family
Gastrochaenidae
Genus
Gastrochaena
Species
ovata
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: ? Gastrochaena brevis Sowerby, 1834, type locality: Galapagos; G. hyalina Sowerby, 1834, type locality: Lord Hood's Island; BMNH: 197882 (Syntypes of Gastrochaena brevis Sowerby, 1834; original local. labels missing)
Origin: Native
- 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, Gastrochaena ovata", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10585. Accessed 5 June 2026.