Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Politoleda polita
Bivalve
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Bivalvia
Order
Nuculanida
Superfamily
Nuculanoidea
Family
Nuculanidae
Genus
Politoleda
Species
polita
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Nucula polita G. B. Sowerby I, 1833, Nuculana (Politoleda) polita (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833), Nuculana polita (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833) (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
- 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.
- Kaiser, K.L. (1997) The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos /. In The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos. Kaiser, K. L. (1997). The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos /. In The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos / (p. 76). https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.129924.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Politoleda polita", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20025. Accessed 1 November 2026.