Galapagos Species Database

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

Hemipolygona centrifuga (Dall, 1915)

Gasterópodo, Gastropod

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Gastropoda

Order
Neogastropoda

Superfamily
Buccinoidea

Family
Fasciolariidae

Genus
Hemipolygona

Species
centrifuga

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Fusinus centrifugus Dall, 1915, Fusus centrifugus (Dall, 1915), Latirus centrifugus (Dall, 1915) (Horton et al., 2021).; (L. centrifugus ) USNM: 96370 (Holotype, type locality: Galapagos), LACM: AHF 82-33, AHF 197-34, AHF 330-35, CDRS: 485, 814, 837, MHNG expedition to the Galapagos, 1993.

Origin: Native

Distribution

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

References

  • Dall, W.H. (1915) Notes on the West American species of Fusinus. The Nautilus 29(5): 54-57.
  • 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, Hemipolygona centrifuga", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20013. Accessed 13 June 2026.