Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Steironepion piperatum
Gasterópdo, Gastropod
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth)
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Neogastropoda
Superfamily
Buccinoidea
Family
Columbellidae
Genus
Steironepion
Species
piperatum
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Mangelia (Steironepion) melanosticta Pilsbry & H. N. Lowe, 1932, Mangelia melanosticta Pilsbry & H. N. Lowe, 1932, Nassarina (Steironepion) piperata (E. A. Smith, 1882), Nassarina melanosticta (Pilsbry & H. N. Lowe, 1932), Pleurotoma (Defrancia) piperata E.A. Smith, 1882, Pleurotoma piperata E. A. Smith, 1882, Steironepion piperata [sic] (Horton et al., 2021)
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.
- 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, Steironepion piperatum", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20027. Accessed 1 November 2026.