Galapagos Species Database

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Eurytellina inaequistriata (Donovan, 1802)

Bivalve

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Bivalvia

Order
Cardiida

Superfamily
Tellinoidea

Family
Tellinidae

Genus
Eurytellina

Species
inaequistriata

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Tellina (Eurytellina) inaequistriata Donovan, 1802, Tellina gemma Gould, 1853, Tellina inaequistriata Donovan, 1802, Tellina leucogona Dall, 1900, Tellina mantaensis Pilsbry & Olsson, 1943, Tellina sanguinea Wood, 1815 (Horton et al., 2021).; (T. mantaensis) LACM: 33-59, 33-76 (fide Kaiser, 1997)

Origin: Native

Distribution

Distribution: (T. mantaensis) Gulf of Chiriqui, Panama, to Caleta la Cruz, northern Peru.

References

  • 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.
  • Keen, A.M. (1958) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 1st edition, 624 pp.

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