Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Acar botanica
Bivalve
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Bivalvia
Order
Arcida
Superfamily
Arcoidea
Family
Arcidae
Genus
Acar
Species
botanica
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Arca botanica Hedley, 1917, Barbatia pusilla Angas, 1867 (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.
- Hertlein, L.G. Strong, A.M. (1939) Marine Pleistocene mollusks from the Galapagos Islands. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series, 23(24): 367-380.
- 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.
- Marincovich, L. (1973) Intertidal mollusks of Iquique, Chile. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Science Bulletin 16: 1-49.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Acar botanica", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20101. Accessed 31 October 2026.