Galapagos Species Database

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Niso interrupta (G. B. Sowerby I, 1834)

Length: 18 mm; diameter: 8 mm.

Shallow water (less than 200 m depth)

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Gastropoda

Order
Littorinimorpha

Superfamily
Eulimoidea

Family
Eulimidae

Genus
Niso

Species
interrupta

Taxon category: Accepted

Finet (2001): Only one specimen, but with an uncertain identification, is recorded from the Galapagos in the collection of the LACM (LACM n° 33-164, ex AHF-409) (see also Finet, 1994 & Kaiser, 1997: 52).

Origin: Native

Distribution

Distribution: San Pedro Martir island to Guayaquil, Ecuador, in depths to 55 m.

References

  • Finet, Y. (1994) The Marine Mollusks of the Galápagos Islands: a documented faunal list Muséum d'Histoire naturelle, Genève, 180 pp.
  • 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.
  • Kaiser, K.L. (1997) The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos /. In The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos. Kaiser, K. L. (1997). The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos /. In The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos / (p. 76). https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.129924.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Niso interrupta", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10826. Accessed 31 October 2026.