Galapagos Species Database
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Favartia lappa
Murex snails or rock snails
(M. lappa) Length: 30 mm.
(M. lappa) Shallow water (less than 200 m depth)
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Neogastropoda
Superfamily
Muricoidea
Family
Muricidae
Genus
Favartia
Species
lappa
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Favartia (Favartia) lappa (Broderip, 1833), Murex lappa Broderip, 1833 unaccepted, Murex radicatus Hinds, 1844 unaccepted, Murex vittatus minusculus M. Smith, 1947, Murexiella lappa (Broderip, 1833), Murexiella radicata (Hinds, 1844) (Horton et al., 2021); (M. lappa) LACM: 66-121, 66-211, 71-48, 72-193, AHF 187-34, AHF 314-35
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.
- 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, Favartia lappa", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20004. Accessed 7 June 2026.