Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Gibberulus gibbosus
Gasterópodo, Gastropod
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Littorinimorpha
Superfamily
Stromboidea
Family
Strombidae
Genus
Gibberulus
Species
gibbosus
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Gibberulus gibberulus gibbosus (Röding, 1798), Lambis gibbosa Röding, 1798, Strombus (Gibberulus) gibberulus gibbosus (Röding, 1798) (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.
- Mienis, H.K. (1978) Strombus gibberulus gibbosus (Röding) from Galapagos the Islands. Informations de la Société Belge de Malacologie 6(1): 31.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Gibberulus gibbosus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20078. Accessed 31 October 2026.