Galapagos Species Database

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

Zeidora galapagensis (J. H. McLean, 1970)

Gastropodos, Gastropods

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Gastropoda

Order
Lepetellida

Superfamily
Fissurelloidea

Family
Fissurellidae

Genus
Zeidora

Species
galapagensis

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Nesta galapagensis McLean, 1970 (Horton et al., 2021).

Origin: Endemic

References

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Kay, E.A. (1991) The Marine Mollusks of the Galapagos. Determinants of insular marine Faunas. In: James, M.J. (ed.): Galápagos Marine Invertebrate. Taxonomy, Biogeography, and Evolution in Darwin's Islands. Plenum Press. New York and London, p. 235-252.
  • Keen, A.M. (1958) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 1st edition, 624 pp.

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