Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Daphnella gemmulifera
Length: 13 mm; diameter: 5.5 mm.
Deep water (more than 200 m depth)
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Neogastropoda
Superfamily
Conoidea
Family
Raphitomidae
Genus
Daphnella
Species
gemmulifera
Taxon category: Accepted
LACM: 1541 (Holotype, type locality: Galapagos)
Origin: Endemic
- 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.
- Keen, A.M. (1958) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 1st edition, 624 pp.
- McLean, J.H. Poorman, R. (1971) New species of tropical eastern Pacific Turridae. The Veliger 14: 89-113.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Daphnella gemmulifera", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10740. Accessed 30 October 2026.