Galapagos Species Database

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

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

• Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.
• 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.
• Keen, A.M. (1958) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 1st edition, 624 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.