Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Bushia galapagana
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth)
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Bivalvia
Superfamily
Thracioidea
Family
Thraciidae
Genus
Bushia
Species
galapagana
Taxon category: Accepted
USNM:195029 (Holotype, type locality: Galapagos)
Origin: Native
- Dall, W.H. (1915) A review of some bivalve shells of the group Anatinacea from the West Coast of America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 49(2116): 441-456.
- 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, Bushia galapagana", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10592. Accessed 31 October 2026.