Galapagos Species Database

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Bathybembix galapagana (Dall, 1908)

Gastropodo, Gastropod

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Gastropoda

Order
Seguenziida

Superfamily
Seguenzioidea

Family
Calliotropidae

Genus
Bathybembix

Species
galapagana

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Solariella galapagana Dall, 1908 (Horton et al., 2021).

Origin: Native

Distribution

Distribution: (S. galapagana) Galapagos Islands (Keen, 1971).

References

  • Keen, A.M. (1971) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Marine Mollusks from Baja California to Peru- Second Edition. Stanford University Press, Stanford California. 2nd edition, 1064 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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