Galapagos Species Database

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

Favartia perita (Hinds, 1844)

Sea snail

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Gastropoda

Order
Neogastropoda

Superfamily
Muricoidea

Family
Muricidae

Genus
Favartia

Species
perita

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Favartia (Favartia) perita (Hinds, 1844), Murex peritus Hinds, 1844 unaccepted, Murexiella perita (Hinds, 1844) (Horton et al., 2021)

Origin: Native

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.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Favartia perita", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20005. Accessed 31 October 2026.