Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Thorunna talaverai
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth)
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Nudibranchia
Suborder
Euctenidiacea
Superfamily
Doridoidea
Family
Chromodorididae
Genus
Thorunna
Species
talaverai
Taxon category: Accepted
Type locality: Galapagos
Origin: Endemic
- 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.
- Ortea, J. Bacallado, J.J. & Valdés, A. (1992) Resultados científicos del proyecto "Galapagos: Patrimonio de la Humanidad". No. 1: Chromodorididae (Mollusca: Nudibranchia). Res. Cient. Proy. Galapagos TFMC no. 1 (40 pp.): 31-71. Museo de Ciencias Naturales OAMC, Cabildo de Tenerife, Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Thorunna talaverai", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10624. Accessed 9 June 2026.