Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Terebra litorea
Uñas de mar, Sea nails
Shell large; color butt in fossil state; whorls flat, slightly constricted at weak spiral groove which sets off convex subsutural band
T. litorea is extinct (Walker, 1991)
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Neogastropoda
Superfamily
Conoidea
Family
Terebridae
Genus
Terebra
Species
litorea
Taxon category: Accepted
Note: This species was described as fossil, and has not been seen by us as a recent species; Holotype, California Academy of Science, Type Collelction n. 2904 (Bratcher, 1971)
Origin: Endemic
- Bratcher, T. Burch, R.D. (1971) The Terebridae (Gastropoda) of Clarion, Socorro, Cocos, and Galapagos Islands. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 37(21): 537-566.
- Walker, Sally (1991) Taphonomy and Paleoecology of Villamil Fossil Megagastropods of Isla Isabela. In Galapagos Marine Invertebrates - Taxonomy, Biogeography and Evolution in Darwin´s Islands. Walker, S.-E. (1991). Taphonomy and Paleoecology of Villamil Fossil Megagastropods of Isla Isabela. In Galapagos Marine Invertebrates - Taxonomy, Biogeography and Evolution in Darwin´s Islands. (pp. 423–437).
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"Galapagos Species Database, Terebra litorea", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=15015. Accessed 31 October 2026.