Galapagos Species Database
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Epitonium zeteki
Gasterópodo, Gastropod
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
[unassigned] Caenogastropoda
Superfamily
Epitonioidea
Family
Epitoniidae
Genus
Epitonium
Species
zeteki
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Asperiscala zeteki (Dall, 1917), Clathrus venado Olsson & M. Smith, 1951, Epitonium venado (Olsson & M. Smith, 1951) (Horton et al., 2021).; (Asperiscala z.) Finet (2001): Material from Galapagos in LACM (reg. number LACM 34-277) is tentatively referred to this species by Kaiser (1997: 34).
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.
- Kaiser, K.L. (1997) The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos /. In The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos. Kaiser, K. L. (1997). The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos /. In The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos / (p. 76). https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.129924.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Epitonium zeteki", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20094. Accessed 1 November 2026.