Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Supplanaxis obsoletus
Planáxido, Planaxis
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
[unassigned] Caenogastropoda
Superfamily
Cerithioidea
Family
Planaxidae
Genus
Supplanaxis
Species
obsoletus
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Planaxis nigritella Forbes, 1852, Planaxis obsoletus Menke, 1851 (Horton et al., 2021); LACM: 32-7.5, 84-43.8, 84-43.9 (fide Kaiser, 1997), (P. obsoletus) CDRS: 588, 597, 733 (all identified as Rissoina dina Bartsch, 1915)
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- 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, Supplanaxis obsoletus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19987. Accessed 4 November 2026.