Galapagos Species Database

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

Drillia clavata (Sowerby, 1834)

Length: 13 mm; diameter: 5 mm.

Shallow water (less than 200 m depth)

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Gastropoda

Order
Neogastropoda

Superfamily
Conoidea

Family
Drilliidae

Genus
Drillia

Species
clavata

Taxon category: Accepted

LACM: several specimens (ex.: D-3, HH-209, AHF 157-34, AHF 325-35, AHF 329-35, AHF 346-35) Note: This species is accepted based in the references.

Origin: Native

Distribution

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

Distribution: From Puerto Culebra, Costa Rica, Ecuador. Galapagos islands (Finet, 1991)

References

  • 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.
  • 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, Drillia clavata", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10690. Accessed 30 October 2026.