Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Anatoma keenae
caracol, Snail
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Lepetellida
Superfamily
Scissurelloidea
Family
Anatomidae
Genus
Anatoma
Species
keenae
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Anatoma epicharis (J. H. McLean, 1970); Scissurella (Anatoma) epicharis J. H. McLean, 1970; Scissurella (Anatoma) keenae J. H. McLean, 1970; Scissurella epicharis J. H. McLean, 1970; Scissurella keenae J. H. McLean, 1970 (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.
- 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.
- Kay, E.A. (1991) The Marine Mollusks of the Galapagos. Determinants of insular marine Faunas. In: James, M.J. (ed.): Galápagos Marine Invertebrate. Taxonomy, Biogeography, and Evolution in Darwin's Islands. Plenum Press. New York and London, p. 235-252.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Anatoma keenae", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=14823. Accessed 1 November 2026.