Galapagos Species Database

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Lienardia rigida (Hinds, 1843)

Gasterópodo, Gastropod

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Gastropoda

Order
Neogastropoda

Superfamily
Conoidea

Family
Clathurellidae

Genus
Lienardia

Species
rigida

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Clathurella affinis Dall, 1871, Clathurella rigida (Hinds, 1843), Clavatula rigida Hinds, 1843 (Horton et al., 2021).

Origin: Native

Distribution

Distribution: ( C. rigida.) Gulf of California,to Perlas islands, Panama and Galapagos islands.

References

  • 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.
  • 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, Lienardia rigida", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20070. Accessed 31 October 2026.