Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Terebra guayaquilensis (E.A. Smith, 1880) (Horton et al., 2021).; (Terebra g.) LACM: AHF 808-38; Finet (2001): In old literature, Terebra guayaquilensis is not recorded as a species from the Galapagos. On the contrary, Terebra elata Hinds, 1844 is mentioned from the Galapagos in Keen (1971), and T. guayaquilensis was considered to be a synonym of T. elata in Keen (1971). Actually, the two forms of T. elata figured by Bratcher & Burch in Keen (1971) belong to two species which must be considered separate (Bratcher, 1979). According to Bratcher (pers. comm.), the true Terebra elata does not seem to occur in the Galapagos, and the previous records of “T. elata “ from the archipelago are probably referable to guayaquilensis (Bratcher, pers. comm., 1983). However, and illogically, the Galapagos are not mentioned within the distribution range of Terebra guayaquilensis in Bratcher & Cernohorsky (1987). Syn.: Myurella belcheri E.A. Smith, 1873, Myurella guayaquilensis E.A. Smith, 1880, Terebra ira Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932

Origin: Native

• Bratcher, T. (1979) Taxonomic Changes in Eastern Pacific Terebridae with the Dscription of a New Species (Mollusca: Gastropoda). The Veliger 22: 61-64.
• Bratcher, T. Cernohorsky, W.O. (1987) Living Terebras of the World. A Monograph of the Recent Terebridae of the World. American Malacologists Inc., Melbourne, Florida, 240 pp.
• Finet, Y. (1991) The Marine Mollusks of the Galapagos Islands. In: Galápagos Marine Invertebrate. Taxonomy, Biogeography, and Evolution in Darwin's Islands. Plenum Press. New York and London, p. 253-280.
• 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.