Galapagos Species Database

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

Compressidens brevicornu (Sharp & Pilsbry, 1897)

dentálio

Deep water (more than 200 m depth)

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Scaphopoda

Order
Gadilida

Suborder
Gadilimorpha

Family
[unassigned] Gadilida

Genus
Compressidens

Species
brevicornu

Taxon category: Accepted

USNM: 600415 (Holotype), 122809 (Paratypes), 122807

References

  • 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, Compressidens brevicornu", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10612. Accessed 2 November 2026.