Galapagos Species Database

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

Conus recurvus Broderip, 1833

Length: 50 mm; diameter: 22 mm.

Shallow water (less than 200 m depth)

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Gastropoda

Order
Neogastropoda

Superfamily
Conoidea

Family
Conidae

Genus
Conus

Species
recurvus

Taxon category: Accepted

? Syn.: Conus regularis Sowerby, 1833, ? Syn.: Conus emarginatus Reeve, 1844; LACM: AHF 817-38, LACM: 38-83.3, 152115, 152116 (all as Conus emarginatus Reeve, 1844, fide Kaiser, 1997), Acc. name: Conus regularis G. B. Sowerby II, 1833

Origin: Native

Distribution

Distribution: From Magdalena Bay, Gulf of california, south to colombia and Ecuador including Galapagos islands.

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.
  • Kaiser, K.L. (1997) The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos /. In The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos. Kaiser, K. L. (1997). The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos /. In The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos / (p. 76). https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.129924.
  • Keen, A.M. (1958) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 1st edition, 624 pp.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Conus recurvus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10661. Accessed 30 October 2026.