Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Aliculastrum exaratum
Gasterópodo, Gastropod
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Cephalaspidea
Superfamily
Haminoeoidea
Family
Haminoeidae
Genus
Aliculastrum
Species
exaratum
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Atys casta Carpenter, 1864, Atys castus Carpenter, 1864, Atys chimera F. Baker & Hanna, 1927, Atys exaratus (Carpenter, 1857), Bulla exarata Carpenter, 1857, Cylichna stephensae A. M. Strong & Hertlein, 1939, Cylichna veleronis A. M. Strong & Hertlein, 1939 (Horton et al., 2021).
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.
- 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, Aliculastrum exaratum", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20057. Accessed 4 November 2026.