Galapagos Species Database
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Calyptraea conica
Diameter: 24 mm; height: 14 mm.
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth)
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Littorinimorpha
Superfamily
Calyptraeoidea
Family
Calyptraeidae
Genus
Calyptraea
Species
conica
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Calyptraea sordida Broderip, 1834; Finet (2001): Was mentioned from the Galapagos only by Pilsbry & Vanatta (1902). This record has not been confirmed subsequently and appears dubious.
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.
- Pilsbry, H.A. Vanatta, E.G. (1902) Papers from the Hopkins Stanford Galapagos Expedition, 1898-1899. XIII: Marine Mollusca. Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences 4: 549-560.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Calyptraea conica", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10779. Accessed 1 November 2026.