Galapagos Species Database

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

Tritonoharpa vexillata Dall, 1908

caracol, Snail

Deep water (more than 200 m depth)

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Gastropoda

Order
Neogastropoda

Superfamily
Cancellarioidea

Family
Cancellariidae

Genus
Tritonoharpa

Species
vexillata

Taxon category: Accepted

USNM: 110580 (Holotype, type locality: Galapagos), Syn.: Colubraria xavieri Campbell, 1961

Origin: Native

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.
  • Dall, W.H. (1908) Reports on the dredging operations off the west coast of Central America to the Galapagos, to the west coast of Mexico, and in the Gulf of California, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, carried on by the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer "Albatross", from October 1904 to March 1905, Lieut. Commander L.M. Garrett, U.S.N. commanding. XIV. The Mollusca and Brachiopoda. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 43 (6): 205-487 pl. 1-22.
  • Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.
  • 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.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Tritonoharpa vexillata", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10641. Accessed 13 June 2026.