Galapagos Species Database

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

Titanostrombus galeatus (Swainson, 1823)

Estrombina, Strombina

(S. galeatus) Length: 190 mm (7 1/2 inches); width: 125 mm ( 5 inches).

(S. galeatus) Shallow water (less than 200 m depth).

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Gastropoda

Order
Littorinimorpha

Superfamily
Stromboidea

Family
Strombidae

Genus
Titanostrombus

Species
galeatus

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Lobatus galeatus (Swainson, 1823), Strombus crenatus G. B. Sowerby I, 1825, Strombus galea W. Wood, 1828, Strombus galeatus Swainson, 1823 (Horton et al., 2021).; (S. galeatus) LACM: several specimens, CDRS: 113, 794, FNRS-Belgian expedition to the Galapagos, 1984

Origin: Native

Distribution

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

Distribution: (S. galeatus) The northern and Gulf of California, to Ecuador including 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.
  • 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.
  • Keen, A.M. (1958) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 1st edition, 624 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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"Galapagos Species Database, Titanostrombus galeatus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19991. Accessed 26 April 2025.