Galapagos Species Database

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Exilia cortezi (Dall, 1908)

Gastropodo, Gastropod

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Gastropoda

Order
Neogastropoda

Superfamily
Pseudolivoidea

Family
Ptychatractidae

Genus
Exilia

Species
cortezi

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Leucosyrinx galapagana Dall, 1919, Surculina galapagana (Dall, 1919) (Horton et al., 2021). Note: Leucosyrinx galapagana USNM: 96494 in cited by Boss, K. J., Rosewater, J., & Ruhoff, F. A. (1968) The zoological taxa of William Healey Dall. Bulletin of the United States National Museum.

Origin: Native

References

  • 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.
  • Dall, W.H. (1908) Descriptions of new species of mollusks from the Pacific Coast of the United States, with notes on other mollusks from the same region. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 34: 245–257.
  • 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.
  • Boss, K. J Rosewater, J., & Ruhoff, F. A (1968) The zoological taxa of William Healey Dall. Boss, K. J., Rosewater, J., & Ruhoff, F. A. (1968). The zoological taxa of William Healey Dall. Bulletin of the United States National Museum.

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