Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Stramonita biserialis
Gastropodo, Gastropod
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
- 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.