Galapagos Species Database
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Gadila austinclarki
Dentálio
(C. austinclarki) Length: 4.4 mm;diameter: 0.55 mm.
(C. austinclarki) Shallow water (less than 200 m depth)
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Scaphopoda
Order
Gadilida
Suborder
Gadilimorpha
Family
Gadilidae
Genus
Gadila
Species
austinclarki
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Cadulus austinclarki Emerson, 1951 (Horton et al., 2021).; (C. austinclarki) USNM: US Fish Commission Sta. 2813 (fide Emerson, 1951)
Origin: Native
Distribution: (C. austinclarki) Santa Maria Bay,Baja California, Gulf of California, Panama and Galapagos islands.
- Emerson, W.K. (1951) A new scaphopod mollusk, Cadulus austinclarki, from the Gulf of California. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 41(1): 24-26.
- 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.
- Keen, A.M. (1958) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 1st edition, 624 pp.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Gadila austinclarki", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20050. Accessed 31 October 2026.