Galapagos Species Database

The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.

Laciolina ochracea (Carpenter, 1864)

Tallerina ocrosa, Ocherous tellin

(T. ochracea) Length: 64 mm.

(T. ochracea) Shallow water (less than 200 m depth), Subtidal.

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Bivalvia

Order
Cardiida

Superfamily
Tellinoidea

Family
Tellinidae

Genus
Laciolina

Species
ochracea

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Tellina (Laciolina) ochracea Carpenter, 1864, Tellina ochracea Carpenter, 1864 (Horton et al., 2021) ; (T. ochracea) LACM: 33-27, 34-51, 84-27, 151969 (fide Kaiser, 1997), CDRS: 651 (? misidentified as Psammotreta viridotincta (Carpenter, 1856)), 660, 1080, 1089, 1538, FNRS-Belgian expedition to the Galapagos, 1984, MHNG expedition to the Galapagos, 1993

Origin: Native

Distribution

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

Distribution: (T. ochracea) Gulf of California to Costa Rica and Ecuador (Galapagos Islands)

References

  • 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.
  • Kaiser, K.L. (1997) The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos /. In The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos. Kaiser, K. L. (1997). The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos /. In The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos / (p. 76). https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.129924.
  • Keen, A.M. (1958) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 1st edition, 624 pp.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Laciolina ochracea", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19949. Accessed 31 October 2026.