Galapagos Species Database

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Casmaria erinaceus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Gasterópodo, Gastropod

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Gastropoda

Order
Littorinimorpha

Superfamily
Tonnoidea

Family
Cassidae

Genus
Casmaria

Species
erinaceus

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Buccinum erinaceus Linnaeus, 1758, Buccinum meles Dillwyn, 1817, Buccinum vibex Linnaeus, 1758, Casmaria erinacea unaccepted, Casmaria erinaceus erinaceus (Linnaeus, 1758), Casmaria vibexmexicana (Stearns, 1894), Cassis (Casmaria) vibexmexicana Stearns, 1894, Cassis denticulata Röding, 1798, Cassis glabra Röding, 1798, Cassis vibex (Linnaeus, 1758), Cassis vibexmexicana Stearns, 1894, Phalium edentulum Link, 1807, Phalium vibex (Linnaeus, 1758) (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, Casmaria erinaceus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20008. Accessed 31 October 2026.