Galapagos Species Database

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Stramonita biserialis (Blainville, 1832)

Gastropodo, Gastropod

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Gastropoda

Order
Neogastropoda

Family
Muricidae

Genus
Stramonita

Species
biserialis

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Purpura bicostalis Lamarck, 1816, Purpura biserialis Blainville, 1832, Purpura haematura Valenciennes, 1846, Thais biserialis (Blainville, 1832), Thais haemastoma biserialis (Blainville, 1832) (Horton et al., 2021); Stramonita haemastoma biserialis (Blainville, 1832) (Finet, 1994).

Origin: Native

References

  • Finet, Y. (1994) The Marine Mollusks of the Galápagos Islands: a documented faunal list Muséum d'Histoire naturelle, Genève, 180 pp.
  • 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, Stramonita biserialis", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19873. Accessed 2 August 2025.