Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Stigmaulax elenae
Caracol lunar estriado, Moon snail striated
(N. elenae) Height: 32 mm; diameter: 32 mm.
(N. elenae) Shallow water (less than 200 m depth), sublittoral
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Littorinimorpha
Superfamily
Naticoidea
Family
Naticidae
Genus
Stigmaulax
Species
elenae
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Natica elenae Récluz, 1844, Natica haneti Récluz, 1850 (Horton et al., 2021); (N. elenae) LACM: A. 5498
Origin: Native
- 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.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Stigmaulax elenae", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19952. Accessed 30 October 2026.