Galapagos Species Database

The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.

Favartia exigua (Broderip, 1833)

murex elegante, Elegant murex

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Gastropoda

Order
Neogastropoda

Superfamily
Muricoidea

Family
Muricidae

Genus
Favartia

Species
exigua

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Murexiella exigua (Broderip, 1833), Favartia (Favartia) exigua (Broderip, 1833), Murex exiguus Broderip, 1833, Murexiella venustula Poorman, 1983 (Horton et al., 2021).

Origin: Native

Distribution

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

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.
  • 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.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Favartia exigua", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=17663. Accessed 9 June 2026.