Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Sinetectula cinis
Buccino ceniza, Swift whelk
(C. cinis) Length: 28 mm; width: 10 mm.
(C. cinis) Shallow water (less than 200 m depth), intertidal and infralittoral.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Neogastropoda
Superfamily
Buccinoidea
Family
Pisaniidae
Genus
Sinetectula
Species
cinis
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Buccinum cinis Reeve, 1846, Caducifer cinis (Reeve, 1846), Caducifer thaleia Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932, Engina cinis (Reeve, 1846) (Horton et al., 2021); (C. cinis) USNM171968, 678930, LACM: 66-118, 66-119, 66-206, AHF 82-33, AHF 796-38, BMNH1966611 (Syntypes, type locality: Galapagos), CDRS: 157, FNRS-Belgian expedition to the Galapagos, 1984
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: (C. cinis) From México to Cocos Island and Ecuador including Galapagos Islands
- 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.
- Hickman, C.P. Jr. Finet, Y. (1999) A Field Guide to the Marine Molluscs of Galápagos. Sugar Spring Press, Lexington, Virginia, 150 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.
- Keen, A.M. (1958) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 1st edition, 624 pp.
- Reeve, L. (1843-78) Conchologia Iconica: or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 1-20. London.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Sinetectula cinis", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19916. Accessed 31 October 2026.