Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Asperiscala indistincta
Caracol, Snail
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth)
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Caenogastropoda
Superfamily
Epitonioidea
Family
Epitoniidae
Genus
Asperiscala
Species
indistincta
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Acirsa albemarlensis Dall & Ochsner, 1928 (Pleistocene); CAS 2927 (Holotype of Acirsa albemarlensis, type locality Galapagos) (Finet, 1994)
Origin: Native
- Dall, W.H. Ochsner, W. (1928) Tertiary and Pleistocene mollusca from the Galápagos Islands. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series, 17(4): 89-139.
- 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. (1994) The Marine Mollusks of the Galápagos Islands: a documented faunal list Muséum d'Histoire naturelle, Genève, 180 pp.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Asperiscala indistincta", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=11035. Accessed 31 October 2026.