Galapagos Species Database

The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.

Thysanoteuthis rhombus Troschel, 1857

Pelagic

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Cephalopoda

Order
Oegopsida

Family
Thysanoteuthidae

Genus
Thysanoteuthis

Species
rhombus

Taxon category: Accepted

Origin: Native

Distribution

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

References

  • Baque, J Páez, D & Wolff, M (2012) Hábitos alimentarios de dos peces pelágicos Thunnus albacares y Acanthocybium solandri de la Reserva Marina de Galápagos. Revista de Biología Marina y Oceanografía Vol.47, Nº1:1-11 pp.
  • 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, Thysanoteuthis rhombus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10603. Accessed 3 October 2026.