Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Finet (2001): This species was originally described from an unknown locality (Reeve, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1843: 186), but later on, Reeve (Conch. Icon., 1848, Turbo, pl. 5 fig. 21) cited the Galapagos Islands as locality for the specimens collected by H. Cuming. Subsequent authors (Carpenter, 1857; Stearns, 1893 & 1894; Dall, 1909; Tomlin, 1928) also quoted the species from the Galapagos. The locality mentioned by Reeve may be erroneous, and later records may have been based upon misidentifications; there seems to be no actual evidence of the occurrence of this species in the Galapagos (see also Finet, 1994 & 1995).

Origin: Native

Distribution: Bahia San Luis Gonzaga, Gulf of California, to Peru and Ecuador (including Galapagos islands).

• Carpenter, P.P. (1857) Report on the Present State of our Knowledge with Regard to the Mollusca of the West Coast of North America. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1856): 159-368.
• Dall, W.H. (1909) Report on a collection of shells from Peru, with a summary of the littoral marine Mollusca of the Peruvian zoological Province. Proc. United States Natl. Mus. 37 (1704): 147-294, pls. 20-28.
• Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.
• Finet, Y. (1995) Marine Molluscs of the Galapagos. Gastropods - A monograph and revision of the families Trochidae, Skeneidae, Turbinidae and Neritidae. Monographs on Galapagos Mollusca no. 2. Ed. L'Informatore Piceno, Ancona, 139 pp.
• Finet, Y. (1994) The Marine Mollusks of the Galápagos Islands: a documented faunal list Muséum d'Histoire naturelle, Genève, 180 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.
• Reeve, L. (1843) Descriptions of specimens of new species of the genera Trochus and Turbo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1842): 184-186.
• Reeve, L. (1843-78) Conchologia Iconica: or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 1-20. London.
• Stearns, R.E.C. (1894) The shells of Tres Marias and other localities along the shores of Lower California and the Gulf of California. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 17(996): 139-204.
• Stearns, R.E.C. (1893) Scientific results of explorations by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross". No. XXV - Report on the mollusk-fauna of the Galapagos Islands, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 16: 353-450.
• Tomlin, J.R. Le B. (1928) The Mollusca of the "St. George" Expedition - I. The Pacific Coast of South America. Journal of Conchology 18: 187-198.