Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Hybolophus gibbosus
Concha, Shell
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Bivalvia
Order
Carditida
Superfamily
Crassatelloidea
Family
Crassatellidae
Genus
Hybolophus
Species
gibbosus
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Crassatella gibbosa G. B. Sowerby I, 1832, Crassatellites rudis Li, 1930 †, Eucrassatella (Hybolophus) ovata DeVries, 1986 †, Eucrassatella gibbosa (G. B. Sowerby I, 1832), Eucrassatella gibbosa tucilla Olsson, 1932, Eucrassatella ovata DeVries, 1986 †, Eucrassinella aequatorialis Cruz, 1980, Eucrassinella manabiensis Cruz, 1980 (Horton et al., 2021);( E. gibbosa) LACM: 38-43 (fide Kaiser, 1997)
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.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Hybolophus gibbosus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20034. Accessed 31 October 2026.