Galapagos Species Database
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Choristodon robustus
Bivalve
(C. robustum) Shallow water (less than 200 m depth)
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Bivalvia
Order
Venerida
Superfamily
Veneroidea
Family
Veneridae
Genus
Choristodon
Species
robustus
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Choristodon robustum (G. B. Sowerby I, 1834), Choristodon typicum Jonas, 1844, Petricola anachoreta de Folin, 1867,Petricola bulbosa Gould, 1851, Petricola buwaldi B. L. Clark, 1915,Petricola riocanensis Maury, 1917, Petricola robusta G. B. Sowerby I, 1834, Petricola robusta Philippi, 1849, Petricola sinuosa Conrad, 1849, Petricola venusta de Folin, 1867, Rupellaria typica (Jonas, 1844) (Horton et al., 2021).; (C. robustum) MNHN, from Baltra Isl. (fide Coan, 1997)
Origin: Native
- Coan, E.V. (1996) Recent species of the genus Petricola in the eastern Pacific (Bivalvia: Veneroidea). The Festivus 28(11): 118-124.
- 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, Choristodon robustus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20039. Accessed 1 November 2026.