Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Heliacus areola bicanaliculatus
solario bicanalado
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Superfamily
Architectonicoidea
Family
Architectonicidae
Genus
Heliacus
Species
areola
Subspecies
bicanaliculatus
Taxon category: Species with Infraspecific Taxa
Syn.: Heliacus bicanaliculatus (Valenciennes, 1832); Syn.: Heliacus bicanaliculatus (Valenciennes, 1832), Heliacus (Heliacus) areola bicanaliculatus (Valenciennes, 1832) (Horton et al., 2021); ANSP: 317860.
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: (H. bicanaliculatus) Gulf of California to Panamá and Ecuador (Galapagos Islands)
- Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.
- Hickman, C.P. Jr. Finet, Y. (1999) A Field Guide to the Marine Molluscs of Galápagos. Sugar Spring Press, Lexington, Virginia, 150 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.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Heliacus areola bicanaliculatus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10689. Accessed 4 November 2026.