Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Gibberula insularum
Gastropodo, Gastropod
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Neogastropoda
Superfamily
Muricoidea
Family
Cystiscidae
Genus
Gibberula
Species
insularum
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn: Granula insularum B. Roth & Coan, 1971 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
Distribution: (G. insularum) Gulf of California,Philadelphia, Eastern Pacific and Galapagos Island in Isabela, Santa Cruz, Baltra (Roth & V. Coan, 1971).
- Finet, Y. (1991) The Marine Mollusks of the Galapagos Islands. In: Galápagos Marine Invertebrate. Taxonomy, Biogeography, and Evolution in Darwin's Islands. Plenum Press. New York and London, p. 253-280.
- Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.
- Fraser, C. M. (1938) Hydroids of the 1932, 1933, 1935 and 1938 Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions In Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions (pp. 1–152)
- 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.
- Roth, B. Coan, E.V. (1971) Marginellidae (Mollusca: Neogastropoda) from the Galapagos Islands and Cocos Islands. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series, 37(23): 575-584.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Gibberula insularum", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19515. Accessed 31 October 2026.