Galapagos Species Database
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Coanyax pacificus
Mejillón, Mussles
(T. pacifica) Length: 8 mm; height: 4.5 mm; diameter: 2.5 mm.
(T. pacifica) Shallow water (less than 200 m depth)
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Bivalvia
Order
Cardiida
Superfamily
Tellinoidea
Family
Tellinidae
Genus
Coanyax
Species
pacificus
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Elliptotellina pacifica (Dall, 1900), Tellina (Elliptotellina) pacifica Dall, 1900, Tellina pacifica Dall, 1900 (Horton et al., 2021).; (T. pacifica) USNM: 195031, 207612, 330884, MHNG expedition to the Galapagos, 1993
Origin: Native
Distribution: (T. pacifica) Santa Inez Bay, Gulf of California, to Panama, and Ecuador(including Galapagos).
- 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, Coanyax pacificus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20042. Accessed 31 October 2026.