Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Echinolittorina peruviana
Gasterópodo, Gastropod
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth)
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Littorinimorpha
Superfamily
Littorinoidea
Family
Littorinidae
Genus
Echinolittorina
Species
peruviana
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Litorina peruviana (Lamarck, 1822), Litorina zebra (Wood, 1828), Litorina zebra var. nana G. Nevill, 1885, Littorina (Austrolittorina) peruviana (Lamarck, 1822), Littorina peruviana (Lamarck, 1822), Littorina zebra (Wood, 1828), Nodilittorina peruviana (Lamarck, 1822), Phasianella peruviana Lamarck, 1822, Turbo zebra Wood, 1828 (Horton et al., 2021)
Origin: Native
- 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.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Echinolittorina peruviana", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19998. Accessed 1 November 2026.