Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Fissidentalium megathyris
dentálio
Deep water (more than 200 m depth)
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Scaphopoda
Order
Dentaliida
Family
Dentaliidae
Genus
Fissidentalium
Species
megathyris
Taxon category: Accepted
ANSP: 72361, 72362, USNM: 594262 (Holotype), 95851 (Paratypes), 117830 (Paratypes), 122978.
Origin: Native
- Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.
- Finet, Y. (1991) The Marine Mollusks of the Galapagos Islands. In: Galápagos Marine Invertebrate. Taxonomy, Biogeography, and Evolution in Darwin's Islands. Plenum Press. New York and London, p. 253-280.
- Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Fissidentalium megathyris", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10610. Accessed 2 November 2026.