Galapagos Species Database
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Plectodon scaber
Length about 24 mm.
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth)
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Bivalvia
Superfamily
Cuspidarioidea
Family
Cuspidariidae
Genus
Plectodon
Species
scaber
Taxon category: Accepted
LACM: 34-43, 34-56, 34-262, 34-279, 34-282, 34-289 (fide Kaiser, 1997), MHNG expedition to the Galapagos, 1993
Origin: Native
Distribution: Catalina island, California, Gulf of California and south to Panama and the Galapagos islands, in 20 to 250 m.
- 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, Plectodon scaber", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10596. Accessed 30 October 2026.