Galapagos Species Database
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Gelagna succincta
lesser girdled triton
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Littorinimorpha
Superfamily
Tonnoidea
Family
Cymatiidae
Genus
Gelagna
Species
succincta
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Cymatium (Linatella) succinctum (Linnaeus, 1771), Cymatium clandestinum (Lamarck, 1816), Cymatium succunctum (Linnaeus, 1771), Eutritonium clandestinum Lamarck, Linatella clandestina (Lamarck, 1816), Linatella succincta (Linnaeus, 1771), Murex succinctus Linnaeus, 1771, Neptunea doliata Röding, 1798, Triton clandestinus Lamarck, 1816, Triton confinis Brancsik, 1895 (Horton et al., 2021)
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.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Gelagna succincta", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20009. Accessed 31 October 2026.