Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Archierato galapagensis
Gastropodo, Gastropod
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Littorinimorpha
Superfamily
Velutinoidea
Family
Eratoidae
Genus
Archierato
Species
galapagensis
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Hespererato galapagensis F. Schilder, 1933, Hespererato marginata galapagensis F. Schilder, 1933, Sulcerato galapagensis (F. Schilder, 1933) (Horton et al., 2021).; Erato (Hespererato) galapagensis Schilder, 1933 (FEHSE & SIMONE, 2020).
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: (E. galapagensis) Galapagos Island in Isabela (Keen, 1971).
- FEHSE, D. SIMONE, L. R. L. (2020) Contributions to the knowledge of the Eratoidae. X. Revision of the genus Archierato Schilder, 1933 (Mollusca: Gastropoda) Zootaxa, 4851(1), 81–110. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4851.1.3
- 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.
- Keen, A.M. (1958) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 1st edition, 624 pp.
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