Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Favartia exigua
murex elegante, Elegant murex
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
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- 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.