Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Euclathurella acclivicallis
Uñas de mar, Sea nails
Length: 13.2 mm;width: 4.5 mm.
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth)
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Neogastropoda
Superfamily
Conoidea
Family
Clathurellidae
Genus
Euclathurella
Species
acclivicallis
Taxon category: Accepted
LACM: 1532 (Holotype, type locality: Galapagos), D-31, AHF 416-A
Origin: Native
- 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.
- 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.
- Shasky, D.R. (1984) A preliminary checklist of marine mollusks from Manabí Province, Ecuador. Annual Report of the Western Society of Malacologists 16: 25-32.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Euclathurella acclivicallis", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10744. Accessed 31 October 2026.