Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Type locality: James Bay, James Island, Galápagos (Dawson 1953: 136). Holotype: St. George Expedition; Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France (Dawson 1953: 136). Notes: Dawson (1953: 136) Isotype preparations are on slides 1460 and 1461 in HAHF. Type locality: James I., (Isla San Salvador or Santiago) Galápagos (South & Skelton, 2003) (Guiry & Guiry, 2021). Galapagos. Iles James, James Bay, station 2, dragué à 15 brasses (27 mètres) (Lemoine, 1929: 78)

Origin: Native

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

Distribution: Galapagos I. at James Bay - Santiago (Lemoine, 1929). Galapagos i. at Fernandina, Santiago (Silva, 1966). Atlantic America, Asia, Pacific Islands, North, Central and South America: Mexico, Costa Rica, Revillagigedos, Galapagos Islands (Guiry & Guiry, 2021)

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