Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Euvola galapagensis
Bivalve, Bilvalve
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Bivalvia
Order
Pectinida
Superfamily
Pectinoidea
Family
Pectinidae
Section
Pectinini
Genus
Euvola
Species
galapagensis
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Pecten (Oppenheimopecten) galapagensis Grau, 1959 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Endemic
- Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.
- Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.
- Grau, G. (1959) Pectinidae of the eastern Pacific. Allan Hancock publications 23, University of Southern California Press, Los Angeles, 308 pp., 57 pls.
- 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.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Euvola galapagensis", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=11765. Accessed 1 November 2026.