Galapagos Species Database
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Valettietta cavernicola
amphipodo, Amphipods
Eyeless fauna, body length 2.5 mm
Found in ground water, subterranean anchialine salt and brackish waters, living in mangroves
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Malacostraca
Order
Amphipoda
Suborder
Gammaridea
Superfamily
Valettiopsidae
Family
Valettiopsidae
Genus
Valettietta
Species
cavernicola
Taxon category: Accepted
Holotype: USNM 169018
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.
- 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.
- Iliffe, T.M. (1991) Anchialine Fauna of the Galapagos Islands In: James, M.J. (ed.): Galápagos Marine Invertebrate. Taxonomy, Biogeography, and Evolution in Darwin's Islands. Plenum Press. New York and London, p. 209-231.
- Peck, S.B. (1994) Diversity and zoogeography of the non-oceanic Crustacea of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador (excluding terrestrial Isopoda). Canadian Journal of Zoology 72: 54-69.
- Peck, S.B. (1990) Eyeless arthropods of the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador: Composition and origin of the cryptozoic fauna of a young, tropical, oceanic archipelago. Biotropica 22(4): 366-381.
- Stock, J.H. Iliffe, T.M. (1989) Amphipod crustaceans from anchihaline cave waters of the Galapagos Islands. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 98(2): 141-160.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Valettietta cavernicola", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=13982. Accessed 31 October 2026.