Galapagos Species Database

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

Buridrillia deroyorum Emerson & J. H. McLean, 1992

Deep water (more than 200 m depth)

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Gastropoda

Order
Neogastropoda

Superfamily
Conoidea

Family
Pseudomelatomidae

Genus
Buridrillia

Species
deroyorum

Taxon category: Accepted

AMNH: 232163 (Holotype, type locality: Galapagos), 232164 (Paratypes), 232165 (Paratypes), LACM: 2461 (Paratypes)

Origin: Endemic

References

  • Emerson, W.K. McLean, J.H. (1992) Buridrillia deroyorum, new species from the Galapagos Islands, a living record of a neogene Turrid genus. The Nautilus 106(1): 39-42.
  • 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.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Buridrillia deroyorum", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10713. Accessed 5 June 2026.