Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Cancellaria decussata
cancelaria, caracol, Snail
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth)
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Neogastropoda
Superfamily
Volutoidea
Family
Cancellariidae
Genus
Cancellaria
Species
decussata
Taxon category: Accepted
Finet (2001): Mentioned by Petit (1997: 151). Record needs confirmation.
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.
- Petit, R.E. (1997) Notes on the Molluscan fauna of the Montezuma Formation, Costa Rica. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 29: 151-152.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Cancellaria decussata", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10900. Accessed 3 November 2026.